Classic American Funerals are a time to grieve and reflect, but we often forget it’s a wonderful time to celebrate life. Life is a beautiful journey, filled with wild adventures and bright colors, the opposite of the black outfits and the sorrowful sniffles that often fill the room of a funeral home. There are other beautiful ways to celebrate life here in the United States and all across the globe. Throughout history, different cultures have had different ways of expressing how they grieve and accept death. Read below to learn about some unique and traditional funerals.
5 Unique Funeral Traditional
- Beads to Ashes: In South Korea, people often cremate their loved ones and put their ashes into colorful beads! These beads can be vibrant colors, representing a loved one’s aura or personality. Due to limited space, they had to leave the Confucius burial tradition and came up with bead ashes. Some other forms often used to bury ashes include diamonds and other gems.
- New Orleans Jazz Funeral: Right here in America, New Orleans holds one of the most rambunctious, jazz-filled, funeral ceremonies. New Orleans authentically finds a happy medium between sorrow and joy, by using West African, French, and African-American culture with marching bands intertwined with melodic jazz and Cathartic dancing.
- Eco-Friendly Funerals: Environmentally friendly burials have increased in popularity over-time and tend to save burial space. Say goodbye to concrete or wooden caskets, and hello to biodegradable burials. These caskets naturally decompose into the ground. Another natural burial option includes a memorial reef ball. Reef balls essentially are your remains pressed and balled up into a reef somewhere in the ocean. This is a way to let someone’s life keep on giving. These ecofriendly burials both can make your body become a habitat for sea life and other animals.
- Tibet and Mongolian Sky Burial: Vajrayana Buddhists believe that a soul will leave the body after death, turning the body into an “empty vessel.” This is an example of the transmigration of spirits after death, meaning they believe the body has no value after death and the spirit holds everything. Buddhists will then take the body and put in on a mountain top to be snacked on by various animals. They believe is a generous way of giving back to animals and nature.
- Ghana Fantasy Coffins: Fancy and wild coffins of all shapes and sizes are made in Ghana to find a unique way to represent the deceased. Usually, they try to create the coffin to represent what they loved to do in life. From a Fish to a Mercedes-Benz, Ghana has some outrageous coffins that you would have never guessed held a body inside!
No matter what kind of ceremony you choose, always think of the deceased and if this is a way that represents their life. Cremation services allow family members to choose from burial to scattering remains to wherever they please. A memorial service or a traditional service is a beautiful way to say goodbye with all of their loved ones present. Adolf Funeral Home and Cremation Services prides itself on providing exemplary customer services. We take every measure to ensure you are satisfied with all your funeral planning and burial needs during this sensitive time of grief and mourning and will do whatever it takes to make our positive workplace environment translate to your experience with us. Adolf Funeral Home has been serving the Berwyn and Willowbrook areas for a number of years. We pride ourselves on being large enough to provide professionalism and reliability, yet small enough to provide personalized service. To discover more about how we can serve your needs, please visit our website or call one of our locations today.
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