Remembering the Dead Around the World

By Anita Ganeri

Discover how people remember the passing of their loved ones all around the world. Featuring the world's main religions as well as some little-known ceremonies and festivals, this book takes an intriguing and colorful look at how death is commemorated in many different places.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781410992499

Anita Ganeri

Anita Ganeri has written over three hundred information books for children on subjects including natural history, religion and geography. Her books include the Horrible Geography series, which won the Geographical Association Silver Award. She is the author of I Wonder Why: Camels Have Humps and I Wonder Why: The Wind Blows.

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Cultures and Customs: Remembering the Dead Around the World by Anita Ganeri

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Remembering Loved Ones

Day of the Dead

Smoking Ceremony

Jewish Funeral

Funeral Gifts

Mourning Clothes Around the World

Watched by Angels

Jazz Funeral

Coffins Around the World

Many Lives

Sky Burials

Turning the Bones

Decorate a Day of the Dead Skull

Glossary

Find Out More

Index

Copyright

Back Cover

Remembering Loved Ones

In cultures around the world, important events in people’s lives are marked with special customs and ceremonies. They help people to celebrate occasions, such as the birth of a baby, a wedding, or remembering a person who has died. They are also a way to guide people from one stage of their lives to the next. This book looks at how people from different cultures and religions mark a person’s death.

Around the world, people carry out special ceremonies and rituals when a person dies. These include funerals and burials, and ways of mourning and showing grief. In some cultures, people believe in an afterlife or in reincarnation (being born again in a different body). In others, death is truly believed to mark the end of life.

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