RLG229H1 Chapter : Reading 1.docx
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Reading 1: a contribution to the study of the collective. Burial of the body not like an animal carcass needs a correct burial not only for hygienic reasons but for moral obligation as well. With death brings moral responsibilities for the living person. Modifying the natural patterns of their life. Death has a special meaning for the collective consciousness. Commemorative ceremonies are held in honor of the deceased. In primitive societies the bodies are only stored in the tomb where they are first placed. After a while they are moved to their final resting place where the people will perform funeral rites. ^this shows how death is not only represented like it is in our society: the intermediary period. The practices occasioned by the death can be classified under three headings : the body: provisional burial. Malay it is not customary to take a body to its final resting place once the person has died.