Saw a home funeral on my trip to Nicaragua. In the cities, they lay the body out in the home and one can enter and sit awhile. They also set up chairs and usually a big tent for visitors in the street for a day. Everyone helps out to cover costs and bring food. They do a kind of minimal embalming. There’s no dry ice there. An alternative is to have the visitation in the church where the mass will be. They hang a big black ribbon on the doorpost.
We here in the US are slowly catching up to the rest of the world.
Thank you for sharing this bit of information from your travels, Merilynne.
(Wow, that’s a lot of spam!) Hi, Merilynne,
One of my old friends down in Ann Arbor said something about funerals and cremations, and I ended up telling him about your presentation up here in Kalkaska about the green burials in /Saline/? Gave him your website and referenced your talk up here. (Pete Ross, in case he gets in touch…)
MDM