Question

How do death, burial, and mourning rituals relate to the status and meaning of the deceased person?

How do these rituals help those who are bereaved?

Do the rituals contribute to a continuing sense of community?

Answer 1

As we know, the death, burial and mounting rituals are social traditions which vary society to society. Every social area shows different traditions which belongs to their religions, society and social dilemmas.

Every religion has particular burial tradition, and these traditions show the value of deceased person, if we think about Egyptian pyramids and Indian tombs we can get the social status of deceased person.

Rituals are the part of traditions and deeply belong to the religions, but we cannot say that these rituals help the people who are bereaved because there is no scientific evidence but these rituals help society to get connected and help them to generate social structure.

Rituals always contribute to sense of community because these rituals create traditions and social support which is very important to develop social structure.