And so even as he guides us on a hushed procession through the streets of Wakanda and through a series of eerily beautiful funeral rites, Coogler maintains unflagging forward momentum and quickly puts a grief-stricken empire on high alert.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-01-11/golden-globes-2023-how-to-watch-winners-tv-movies

Drukair will also bear the expenses for the funeral rites which will be held in Wachey.

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Families, friends, teachers and community members of Mahdia gathered at the town’s airstrip to bid their final farewell to the teen girls, before they were flown to Micobie, where their funeral rites were read and they were laid to rest.

Source: https://guyanatimesgy.com/deadly-mahdia-fire-final-11-victims-laid-to-rest-at-micobie/

People wept as the body of Ma Lianqiang’s wife, covered with a carpet, was carried away on what looked like a metal bed frame after Muslim funeral rites held outdoors.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/12/19/chinas-earthquake-survivors-endure-frigid-temperatures-and-mourn-the-dead/

The move is in line with Islamic funeral rites which require a burial to take place as quickly as possible after a person’s death.

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/turkey-syria-earthquake-death-toll_n_63e35e94e4b01a4363983a3d

These traditional funeral rites have a lot of spiritual backing and power, it is not in any form a kind of social exercise, whoever falls in the process of dancing while the procession is on May likely die if such person is possessed.

Source: http://urhobotoday.com/importance-of-agberen-in-okpe-traditional-funeral-in-urhobo-nation/