References

• Scheinfeld B(1997)
  

  A Brazilian’s Description of Grief and Bereavement Practices http://www.indiana.edu/~famlygrf/culture/scheinfeld.html

• Reis J(1991)
  

  Death is a festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

  http://books.google.com.lb/books?id=dcg_SLmgMvkC&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=candomble+funeral&source=bl&ots=DfMLVxgLPc&sig=kVwrAPIS078AqpYzJGuW14l5oQw&hl=en&ei=WuhyS76wHNCVtgfQ7aDxCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDEQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=candomble%20funeral&f=false
  

  
  

Modern Brazlians

This is the story of a woman who lost a close relative and explains the burial traditions of the Catholic Brazilians.

• When people pass away in Brazil, it is usually accustomed to wear completely black to the funerals.
  
• In Middle and upper class Brazil, cremation is becoming more common due to lack of burial space and desire to bury family in a shared plot.
• Usually, the mourning period is seven days where on the seventh day, a mass is held in favor of the dead.
• Older People usually express their grief with loud crying and moaning as a sign of extent of their suffering. Younger generations rarely show their feelings. They try to comfort themselves by remembering the good times with the deceased.
• One of the rituals of the funeral that may be more religious than cultural, was the habit of the Catholic church to not allow personal eulogies at a funeral.
  

Candomble

This is a book written by João José Reis that shows the burial traditions of the Ancient Brazilian people, the Candomble.

Page 144-146

• Funerals follow Catholic and African traditions.
• Funeral is exclusively attended by women, except the two men who carry the body on the hammock, a drummer, and a master of ceremonies.
• The drummer plays and the black women sing funeral songs with clapping.
• They quote from the bible not missing to use Latin.
  
• There are funeral feasts with food from African origin.
• They wear mostly red, white and yellow.