What Are Death Rites

a culture-bound ceremony, ritual, or other religious or customary practice associated with dying and the dead, such as a funeral rite.

What are the importance of death rites?

Taking part in a formal funeral ceremony often serves as an important rite of passage with both cultural and religious significance. It is seen as an important milestone and growing experience on our way to adulthood in that it marks the time in our lives when we must face and cope with the reality of death.

How is death a rite of passage?

Death is a Rite of Passage that brings a family of initiatory emotions: grief, anger, terror, rage, disappointment, sadness. But of all these, Grandmother Grief leads the way. She calls forth an Initiation that renews, heals and cleanses our souls.