Comments on: What Happens After You Die in Japan?

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:43:00 +0000

I just experienced this with my father-in-law who passed, it was a bit much for me, but I held strong, my poor little nieces broke down.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:40:00 +0000

The person or director of the ceremony helps us choose the bones (the whole skeleton is just laying there in front of you).

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:15:00 +0000

I know this is an old post, or older post, but I experienced this recently, my father-in-law passed away, but the cremation ceremony was a little bit too much for me to bear.

By: Charlie Sommers

Charlie Sommers — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:00:00 +0000

My father died way back in the early 1960′s and my mother went ahead and had her name and birth date put on the headstone. When she died 40 years later at the age of 100 all that had to be done was add her date of death. When I visited my father’s grave I was never creeped out by the presence of her name. It just reminded me of my own mortality.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:06:00 +0000

From my understanding as the daughter of an embalmer/funeral director in Canada, there’s a ‘pulverizing’ process once the ‘cremains’ are checked with a magnet (this pulls out buttons, staples, melted bullets, etc). A machine basically whirrs up the cremains into what people would consider ashes. No clue if these are ever used in Japan. The weight of cremains is also apparently very consistent, and varies according to gender – for example, a woman’s cremains might weigh about 5 pounds, and a man’s 7 pounds (no idea what the real ratio might be).

By: Agnes Suk Ping

Agnes Suk Ping — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:40:00 +0000

It is an interesting article. bt,,i am curious… hw the family members know which one is feet bone, and which one is head bone?…