un: Black Prince; text

[blackscales]

What funerary rites are you familiar with?

The Kaldorei cleanse a body, perform a final viewing where there is singing then take it to a resting place and grow flowers around it. Goblins have extravagant funerals with mourners and ornate coffins which they are buried or entombed in along with all their accumulated wealth. In Kul Tiras burials at sea are common, while the Tauren peoples burn their dead on funeral pyres so their spirits may return to the Earth mother.

Here, burials appear to be common I have gathered.

Comments

@whitewolf

[northerndragon]

Time was when we buried people. The bones of the lords of my father’s house, and their families, were laid to rest in the crypt, and servants in the lichyard. The lords and kings are remembered with statues, though my father went against custom and remembered his sister with one, too. All of it is going into the earth.

It is better to burn the dead now.

[blackscales]

The dead also walk in your home?

un: man's greatest treasure

[reparo]

It depends on the family and the cultural choices, I think. Also the time period. Viking funerals are a lot like your Tauren people's one, for example. But nowadays, we bury them in a coffin in the ground, and set up headstones for those who are still alive to mourn at.

Some people prefer cremation to burial, and the ashes are either scattered somewhere of significance to the deceased, or put in a sort of cementary for urns, with the headstone again.

[blackscales]

Do you visit these headstones regularly to mourn?

[reparo]

That's the general intent, but it stops being a mourning...after a while. At a point, you just visit.

text | un:thewrench

[in_theworks]

It kinda depends on what religion you follow, where I'm from, but like, most the time it involves burying someone in a coffin. Usually, there's a little religious service, beforehand, and people come in to look at the body and 'pay their respects' or whatever.

Me, I wanna go out on a MOUNTAIN of TNT.

Launch my body into space, man.

[blackscales]

[ Launch into space...? ]

Is this a common rite among your people?

[ Something about the attitude makes him suspect no, but you can never tell. ]

[in_theworks]

Not really?

But, like, TELL ME that wouldn't be AWESOME.

[go on. he'll wait]

un: absterge

[downswing]

Whom do you bury?


( Why do you all keep murdering. )

[blackscales]

[ ...? ]

I am not currently burying anyone. If you are asking for a historical catalogue of people I have buried, I regret to say I have never attended a formal funeral.

[downswing]

Men often asks of funerals when they mean to perform.

un: white pawn; text

[chosenbylight]

[Wrathion has already listed many of the traditions of their homeworld, but. That is not to say that Anduin cannot share more specific details of the funerary rites of Stormwind itself. He is perhaps more intimately familiar with them than he would otherwise care to be.]

Memorials are also commonly erected, for those who wish to visit and pay their respects.

[blackscales]

For everyone?

[ Is this common regardless of status? Or just for people like, say, Varian Wrynn. ]

[chosenbylight]

Well. Not everyone no. There are cemeteries, in Stormwind and the towns beyond. Families usually at least mark the graves with a stone, if they cannot afford more. The noble families usually have more ornamentation -- decorative statues or plants.

I suppose I just meant to point out that there are times when we are not able to bury our dead. Those who are lost at sea. Those who have died in battle. And in those instances, we do what we can to honor their memory, through whatever methods or means we can, whether it be erecting a statue, planting a tree, or something as simple as setting out flowers.

[There is a part of Anduin that wishes Lion's Rest were somehow less... Public. But he understands that it was constructed as much for Stormwind and its people as for Varian Wrynn, and he will have to find solace where he can.]

un: chengmei | voice

[thesuspense]

I don't know how much it matters, unless you want to make use of the bodies and spirits still. Or ensure no one else can.

Perform rites. Remember them. Take note of resentful energy and either put it to rest or harness it.

voice;

[blackscales]

You make it sound simple.

[ Unlike Some People. ]

voice;

[thesuspense]

Why would the dead be more difficult than the living?

They've fewer needs, broadly speaking.

un : dappled peals of the parted seas (voice)

[beitangmoran]

Burials are the most common form of disposing of the dead where I am from, but some people out in the desert do prefer cremating their dead and scattering their ashes int he sand.

The customs here are relatively similar to what I am used to, with a few differences.

[blackscales]

What are the key differences?

[ He's curious! Knowledge is rarely useless, after all. Even if it might not be immediately something he can find purpose for, it might come up later. ]

[beitangmoran]

Tradition, I suppose?

My people believe the body should be preserved so it can be reborn in another life. But ancestor worship is also not done at the grave, but inside the house, mostly.

un:joker ; text

[joker_wild]

We have a wake, and then the person is cremated before they're put in the family grave.

There's a lot of ceremony and food, too, usually.

Re: un:joker ; text

[blackscales]

[ Hmmm.

Food, though. ]

You have one grave your whole family shares?

[joker_wild]

Most families have a monument with their names engraved on it, and the urn with their ashes is placed in a vault or something under it.

[So. Yes?]

un: vast & furious | text.

[valeas]

( Emilia isn't mortal, but her family is. The world she remembers is the human world, and so she learned their ways, inevitably influenced by them. When Vittoria's body was returned to the di Carlos, she was given death rites. It's nothing she cares to speak of, but the topic does intrigue her, so: )

Are burials not common where you're from?

[blackscales]

I've never had a chance to attend.