A question about funeral customs for faiths other than Christian?

You would have to be more specific.

Jewish funerals come in different varieties. There are Orthodox Jews, and then there are the two other more lenient types. There are "devout" Muslims, and then there are various other groups that are more laid back. I'm not familiar with Hindu funeral customs.

Christian funerals are also different. There are a LARGE variety of them: Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant liturgical, Protestant non-liturgical, etc. Each one has its own funeral custom.

As some examples... Orthodox Jewish funerals are quick. Once a person dies, they must be buried within 24 hours. The body is usually taken to a funeral home where a group called the Chevra Kadisha comes in and does a ceremonial washing of the body along with some prayers. Embalming is strictly forbidden. Someone sometimes stays with the body the entire night. The casket, called an Aron, is made of solid wood - no metals, no animal glues, etc., and it usually has the Star of David on it. Funeral ceremonies are generally short, and then the body is transported to the synagogue, the doors of the hearse are opened to give the deceased one last contact with their place of worship, and then they are driven to the cemetery where carrying the body goes slowly. Then a short service is conducted, and the Aron is buried.

That's just for Orthodox Jews. To give a description of typical funeral customs for each one would take FOREVER!

Evey faith is is crammed with traditions and customs. 'Sarah ???' thinks that Zoroastrianism has no longer something to do with Shias; nicely you're very incorrect. Zoroastrianism become between the 1st religions commonplace to guy and it become very common between the Persians. whilst Muslims conquered the Persians, Zoroasters have been compelled to transform to Islam; on a similar time as many died for his or her faith and others sought shelter in different lands, many common Islam; however the old faith didn''t thoroughly disappear. Many Zoroasters traditions discovered their way into the recent Islamic faith and that's reported even at the instant. Sunnis have frequently condemned Shiites for the old Zoroaster's effect interior their faith; that's not a secret and people like Sara who does not understand that's purely being silly. individually, i admire Shiites and my positioned up isn't in any way meant to insult them; i'm purely asserting that that's impossible to utterly erase old traditions from any faith. How plenty it performs in the religion can in undemanding terms be spoke back by ability of Iranian shiites themselves. Christianity is crammed with traditions, purely like Judaism and Islam.