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I think Hispanics are big into taking pictures at wakes.
I also have seen an hispanic family having a picnic at a recently buried relatives grave. Found that weird.
Yes, hispanics are very big into that. They have "dia de los muertos" where they cook up big meals, even bring a lot of beer and liquor to party the whole night away with their dead relatives at the cemetary. They even provide food for the dead person. Lots of candied skulls --- kind of morbid. They even have a skeleton they dress in a robe and worship -- named Santa Muerte (Saint Death).
I was at one viewing where the wife was arguing with her dead husband -- telling him in Spanish that maybe God would forgive him but she wasn't sure she was going to --- she simply had to get the last argument in and then she began to cry.
Talking to the dead?
I was grieving so much I almost threw myself on the casket as it was
being lower like an Italian mother in a Mafia movie.
I mean it. I understand ripping clothing, wailing...and I used to be inhibited to cry...
not anymore.
I talk to the dead anywhere I please, and my Uncle visits me regularly...you
know these things, don't ask...
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