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Tana Toraja, Indonesia. Ripka died of a liver failure at the age of 52. She is kept in the family's home and fed foid every day until the funeral ceremony takes place. She is not considered dead, a but sick person/dying person (a To Makula) until the first buffalo is sacrified and her spirit and the spirit if the buffalo go to "paradise" (Puya) together. The picture is from 2017. This year I was back, and now the coffin is closed, but it is still kept inside the family's home until the funeral is held. Funeral ceremonies in this area are extremely expensive and families are often saving up money for years to honour the "dead" by prestigous ceremonies. #deadandalive #deadandaliveproject #death #dead #deathrituals #deathrites #culture #anthropology #religion #tanatoraja #sulawesi #indonesia #mementomori #postmortem #animism #funeralrituals https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnna2E6Aplp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nkoe3bekafsc

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Tana Toraja, Indonesia. At a Ma'nene ceremony, the married couple, Toding (died at 80 in 2013) and Duma (died at 75 in 2008) has been cleaned and dressed up in new clothes and are left to dry in the sun for a few hours. #deadandalive #deadandaliveproject #mementomori #deathrituals #deathrites #culture #anthropology #fujifilmnordic #tanatoraja #manene #indonesia #explorer #deathculture https://www.instagram.com/p/BkUWmAOgPEy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cc5j4zck0q0d

Early morning in the highlands of Madagascar. A person who died far from the family’s tomb is carried through the landscape and will become part of the coming Famadihana. The Famadihanas (turning of the bones) is usually held every seven years to celebrate the ancestors. It is believed that the ancestors haven’t left earth until their bodies are fully de-composed. #deadandalive #deadandaliveproject #death #deathrituals #deathrites #mementomori #postmortem #religion #culture #madagascar #anthropology #visualanthropology #explorer #fujifilmnordic #xt1 https://www.instagram.com/p/BtxzjU8H47S/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hjbfyz05jf4a

In a war, the faithful heart may shake and is oftentimes found confused as to where to put its faith. Thusly, too many a death in a battlefield pushes us to the point of questioning God’s existence. “War is filled with death, sorrow, anger, and despair. There's no way to put a positive spin to it.” During dire times, a torrent of existential questions gushes at us. Even for a chaplain, who has performed countless of death rites, more and more he reaches the point of questioning the existence of God as he conducts yet another last rite to another fallen soldier. Captain James Flynn have his heart bruised many times from conducting the last rites of a comrade. He wishes each one was the last, but war is all too confusingly great to control the preying Death in it. The chaplain’s bruised heart was never given the chance to recover. The memories of his comrades’ deaths have scarred his heart — each one refusing to be forgotten. To make matters worse, the number of death piles each one after another. Each time they send a letter announcing the death of a soldier, both the major and the chaplain drink their hearts out. Alcohol, the best choice of high to momentarily escape a ceaseless griefs. Despite all that has burdened him, he endured along with the others because every man believes in what they were doing — and they believed in each other. “As long as these men stay, so will I.” Yes, there were times when he questioned his faith in God, but never his faith in his men. He took heart to stay with his men and never abandoned them. His faithful heart refused to sway from death and despair that war brings. This recognition of purpose has fueled him with the courage to fight for the people in Nam and for his fellow comrades who have become a family to him. A faithful heart who lives by its selfless purpose may suffer greatly and may become Death’s victim. But when it dies, it will die with an unchanged faith. Read the full article

At Manila North Cemetery in the Philippines, an estimated 10.000+ people are living among and on the graves and even inside the mausoleums. A young mother with her baby an early morning. #deadandalive #deadandaliveproject #mementomori #death #deathrites #deathrituals #explorer #anthropology #philippines #manila #graveyard_dead #cemetery #poverty https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj_xiJ0AyWM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ewhq2evzthfj