There is a society in Indonesia that lives with dead people for about a week after they die. They treat them like they're sleeping or sick and will soon die but are not dead yet. They have a big celebration, sometimes years after death, for a funeral with sacrificing cows and pigs and other such animals depending on how important that person was. People will use their entire life savings for these events and they welcome tourists, especially white ones, to visit. It's a prestige thing.
These people are the Tana Torajans. I learned about them from a TED lecture on my last holiday.
If I had just waited another two days though, England would've told me about them. I didn't remember the name of the people. Even now I had to look up the spelling for Tana Torajans. But from her description, I knew it was the same people and upon hearing their name I was like YEAH! I just learned about them!
During her time in Indonesia, she went to two funerals in one day and saw severed cow heads and a cow and a pig sacrificed. They weren't too efficient with the killing, unlike the sacrifices she saw for an Islamic holiday that I can't remember. Those were done quickly she said.
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