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KEY HIT Farewell to a Japanese-style S skerrick years of respect, the young Japanese eaned on the body of his friend and grabbed a cigarette from a pack available. "Hiro-chun, I can one of your cigarettes?" He asked, knowing there would be no answer. Others in the room _ a small lounge in the suburbs of Tokyo, surrounded by flowers and the smell of incense _ no. cringe in the corner of the room, the uncle of the dead girl was laughing with another family, drinking a glass of sake, traditional rice wine An aunt took a piece of sushi with chopsticks;. a young cousin was sitting on a chair, annoyed by the lack of action.
What happened last week, and it happens every week. There is death and grief, anime pillows buy-style. The corpse had been placed in the middle of the living room for three days at a body length pillow with dry ice. There was no coffin, and the young man's face was uncovered. Family and friends surrounded his body with books and favorite images, a baseball, cakes, bottles of beer and of course a couple of packs of cigarettes. Hiro-chun was a healthy 29 year old drowned while snorkeling. His parents were devastated, but they had to fulfill social obligations and it was her role, was that guests who visited during the three days of mourning encouraged. Almost all Japanese cremated and Hiro-chun was no exception. The day of the funeral, his body was laid in a coffin and was in a crematorium, where Buddhist chants and prayers were the last taken spoken. The open casket was placed on a table in front of the oven, with personal effects around the body. The crematorium manager told the family he was the last chance to review and in tears, said the desperate mother Hiro chun a farewell, as the coffin slid into the incinerator. The family was upset, but they do not wait. Everyone is moving in an adjacent room, where food and alcohol are impressive, have stacked on multiple tables.
The guests knew that they were expensive _ much of it paid. Family, friends, ladies and gentlemen _ even family-chun Hiro out of respect and commitment. The funeral will cost about $ 40,000. "The whole family gathered friends and relatives and began to talk and laugh, because many of us had not seen for several years," said a family friend of the festival. After an hour the guests were reminded in the room and the table that the cremation took place Hiro-chun was removed from the incinerator. Some of the coals and bones, which sat perfectly in place, was all that remained. The bones were sorted by crematorium staff and described from head to toe _ _ parents. Bones, which go into a special urn were picked from coals of close relatives with long sticks ceremony. The parents were invited to the bone if they wished. The boy's father took a handful returned with him to Canada, the juggling in his hand as he stood to speak, said a family friend. At regular intervals for decades Hiro-chun family and close friends gather to remember with happiness the bright young man. The methods of using them to mourn his loss like us strange, but the pain and grief are feeling the same as any family would Australians. Andrew Butcher is the correspondent of The Courier-Mail Tokyo
