Friday, September 10, 2010

Funerals in the Philippines

Here is a picture of a funeral that we passed on the way to transfers.  Here they have the body embalmed and it goes home for the wake???  Family and friends gather, kill and roast many pigs, sing and generally make a great deal of noise for up to a week.  When everyone is satisfied they head for the burial.  They all line up behind the hearse  and follow it down the street with their umbrella's to shade them from the sun.  It's quite a site.