In Western Cultures, the church teachings influenced the way people died and offered them hope for their afterlife. People believed that we will all die. Towards the end of the twentieth century however, death became a ver private event. People denied death. The people of the Medieval Period would put graveyards on the outside of towns except for those people of special honor were buried within the precincts of the town. These people were concerned …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 971 total…inese customs are similar to the Japanese customs. Most customs and practices held for the dead has a lot to do with religion or tradition. Our culture as well as all others have learned to deal with death in different ways and we all go about it differently. Ancestors pass down their rituals to each generation and that is how each of us learns the practices to preserve the dead and keep their memory alive.