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How Do Societies in Toraja, Indonesia Understand Death?, Indonesia-Toraja…

- - - - Risma Paembonan takes dinner to her mother-in-law, Maria Salempang, who died two weeks earlier, at 84. Time at home with parents can be highly prized. “I’m not sad, because she’s still with us,” says another Torajan woman of her 73-year-old mother, who has lain dead in the house for more than a year.
      - it can be assumed that this can be a coping mechanism for the villager since they hold such deep attachment towards their loved ones even in death. they wish to spend as much time as they can with their passed loved ones before they move on into the afterlife. thus, the want to elongate the time the body spends with the family doing daily tasks to have a form of normalcy after their loved ones passing
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        depending on the class of the family, they keep the body for differing durations of time. lower class families keep the body for several weeks, whilst families in the middle class keep the body for several months, Higher class families keep the body for years