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culturally mandated day of togetherness
Dec. 14th, 2006 08:38 amWell, it has been 40 days since...something. Either my sister's death or the funeral and the family and friends have gathered for yet another Culturally Mandated Day of Togetherness. I have not gone downstairs yet, as I can hear from where I am that my mom is carrying on and weeping and suchlike and I'm just really tired of all of this.
Oh well. Fun times.
ETA: So, my other sister explained what this 40 days after the funeral thing is all about. Apparently, it is...a tradition? A belief? Something like that. According to my sister, with interjections from my mother, 40 days after the funeral we have to go to the gravesite to say goodbye because today is the day that my sister gets to move on to the afterlife. Since the funeral (and obviously, the death), she's been at either our front door or the afterlife's front door waiting for today so she could go. That part was a little fuzzy. And we all had to eat halvah as a prayer. Or something.
Oh well. Fun times.
ETA: So, my other sister explained what this 40 days after the funeral thing is all about. Apparently, it is...a tradition? A belief? Something like that. According to my sister, with interjections from my mother, 40 days after the funeral we have to go to the gravesite to say goodbye because today is the day that my sister gets to move on to the afterlife. Since the funeral (and obviously, the death), she's been at either our front door or the afterlife's front door waiting for today so she could go. That part was a little fuzzy. And we all had to eat halvah as a prayer. Or something.