Free Reading 55th "Death Ceremonies in Bali"

Name : Desi Natalia

NPM : 16611028

  Title : Death Ceremonies in Bali

Screenshoot of the cover

The story is about the ritual of death ceremony in bali. usually people feel very sad, when they lose someone they love like when they lost a member of his family or his friend. but different from

when their family or friends die they are usually not sad. because for them, death is the beginning of a new life, they believe that when a person dies, that person will return to the world in another form, or we often call it by Rengkarnasi.

In some countries, the bodies of the deceased will be put into the soil, in other countries such as Indonesia in particular in some places, the body of the deceased will be burned, the body of the dead is placed at the top of a beautiful wooden tower, they believe in this way the dead will be easy back to live in this world. family and friends then walk and march to the burning place. The people in the dead relatives walked in front of the wooden towers and clung to the long rope that hung there with the music and the loud voices of the prayers. In the kiln, the family looks at the body for the last time and then the body is placed in the burning place. After burning some pieces of bone are brought into the sea or to the river and they are thrown into the water. People wash in the water and then they go home.

Burning the body is expensive so people have to save when they are still living in this world. Because burning the body is expensive, sometimes people burn several bodies at once to make it cheaper because not so many towers are needed. 

From this story I learned that each country has different rituals, such as the ritual of the death ceremony. It is from this distinction that makes each country its own uniqueness.