Every culture is different. They all have their own beliefs, customs, and traditions. But, all people are the same. We all are born, live, and die. Every culture handles death a little differently. Even though all cultures have differences, all cultures share common beliefs and traditions with some other cultures. All of us are also human, and experience the same emotions when we deal with emotional situations, like death. But even though we all share the same emotions, people in different cultures handle them differently.

The Christians of Ireland's practices are similar to all other Christian burial practices. When someone dies, they are kept in a "wake house", which is traditionally the house where they lived and died. Traditionally, people placed salt on the bed, which was believed to keep evil and ghosts away from the mourners. People may still do this because it makes them feel more at ease, even though they do not believe that it has any effect. Candles are also placed around the bed. Friends and family walk into the room where the dead is lying, and say a prayer for their soul. In Irish custom, everyone shares a smoke of tobacco, which was import

Another religion is the Kojiki, which is a Japanese religion. There are similarities to the Irish Christians but also some significant differences in their burial rituals. The Kojiki would wrap the corpse in white silk, in a crouching position. Yellow silk was used around the head. The Ajio, the most important male relative, would come to confirm that the death was natural and that the family had treated the deceased with the utmost of care and respect. Xiaobu, a funeral bread, is baked, torn in pieces, and passed around to the related families and villages. This ritual is called "poxiao". The coffin was usually painted with motifs, different for each person and type of death. The procession is made up of family, villages and xiaozi, who are old women wailing loudly. The Irish Christians also did this. It was called "keening". They sang and wailed about the person's life and virtues over their gravesite. Unlike the Irish, the Kojiki's cremated the deceased. At the cremation site, butter, paper and the funeral bread are placed with the coffin. The oldest xiaozi is given a long branch to light the fire beneath the coffin.

ant to have at a wake. It probably helped people be more at ease, and be able to share their feelings and cope with their loss. The friends and family of the deceased sit around and talk of how good of a person the decea

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