There is a place where the dead are kept at home without being coffined

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There is a place where the dead are kept at home without being coffined as if they were alive, even for years.

The place is in Indonesia and the people who practice this are the Torajan.

For the Torajan, death is a gradual and social process. The bodies of recently deceased people are kept at home and preserved by their families, sometimes for years, until the family has enough money to pay for a funeral. It is believed that the spirit of the dead lingers in the world before the death ceremony is held. Afterwards, the soul will begin its journey to Puya, the land of spirits.

The longer the deceased person stays at home, the more the family can save for the funeral and the larger and more expensive the ceremony can be. Elaborate funeral ceremonies can last 12 days and include the sacrifice of dozens of buffalo and hundreds of pigs. Such ceremonies can cost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The dead live in the house and have their own room, clothes, food and cigarettes twice a day. There is also a bowl in the corner of the room, which serves as a toilet!

The deceased are injected with a formaldehyde solution that prevents the body from decomposing.