Chinese coffins are really huge and personally, I do think they are ugly and invoke eerie feelings too. In the olden days, true blood Chinese fears not having a good coffin to be buried in and a man may scrimp and save money to buy one. If he happens to buy one in his lifetime, he may keep it at home, drag it along with him wherever he goes and even sleep in it at night! So, do you think people of the past view death negatively or do they take death as something realistic? As we know, death is really inevitable. Healthy or diseased, a man who is born is bound to go that way sooner or later and even if we need not broach on the subject, why should some people try to avoid talking about death, brushing it away as a negative and pessimistic subject when we happen to touch on the subject? Isn’t it good for us to contemplate on death occasionally, even daily so that we can prepare for the inevitable and hence, live a full and meaningful life instead of wasting it away, thinking that this will never happen to us?
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I heard that there is a coffin in the mosque which is used to carry dead bodies to the burial ground and the dead is buried without the coffin. Is it true?
It's interesting to learn how different cultures view death. Also how different individuals deal with the inevitable. Me? I don't care what happens to me after I die, throw me to the seagulls for all I care!!