Funeral of New Zealand

This is my report. I examined for Funeral of New Zealand. I compared New Zealand with Japan.

1. Introduction
In Japan, A funeral service attracts attention by influence of "Okuribito" which won Academy Award. Therefore I decided to examine how Maori hold a funeral service in New Zealand because I was interested. In addition, there is a native called "Maori" in New Zealand. I intend to examine it how Maori hold a funeral service.

2. In Kumamoto
In Japan, people hold the funeral service based on religion and the denomination which the deceased believed in. There are many people who do not believe in the particular religion recently. In such a case, we hold a funeral service in religion of the deceased's birthplace or the spouse and irreligion.

The general funeral schedule places a body in a coffin on that day and a wake is held on the next day. And people hold a funeral service on the day after tomorrow. However, it is common not to hold a funeral service from the superstition why a dead person invites friends to in "the special day that carries events in its trail". If the next day is "the special day that carries events in its trail", a temporary wake is held on the next day. Then a wake is held on the day after tomorrow and funeral is on three days later. In addition, it is cremated in Japan.

When people attend a funeral service, people wear the black clothes which called mourning. And people take “Kouden”.

3. In NZ
In New Zealand, people have the undertaker manage the normal funeral service. The person in charge of the undertaker attaches the death certificate of the doctor from a funeral service within three days and sends the notice of death to birth, the death and the marriage registry office of the Department of the Interior. About the progress of the expression, people choosing a way of oneself style increase not a formal thing recently. When people ask the undertaker, in deference to the intention of the family and the undertaker help with original program.

There is not the Japanese wake and the ceremony is performed by a personal denomination. In recent years, cremation is common. About scattering, regulation is different by each city. In the case of Wellington of the capital, people can scatter ashes in the park and the graveyard which a city appoints. In the case of Christchurch, people can scatter ashes anywhere if there is within the common sense. In addition, people can plant a tree at the place that Christchurch appoints if people pay 10 dollars. There are a lot of extensive graveyards such as the big park in New Zealand. Therefore there is a case that family attend the scatter ashes and ask the staff of the graveyard for it when people scatter ashes in the graveyard. People is only scattering unless the family plans a song, speech and music performance. After the funeral service, relative gather attendants and hold the small party that is called “Wake”.

When people attend a funeral service, it is not necessary that people wear black. However it is common to as possible simply and refrain the accessories. There is not the system such as the "Kouden" too. But people attach the message which wrote a memory with the deceased and words of condolence to a relative, and give flowers.

In the case of Maori, the corpse is carried to Marae which is the assembly room of the Maori when people die. Maori thinks about Marae as a very holy place. Including funeral service, wedding ceremony and the tribal meetings are held. A wing is wreathed to the hair, and the clothes of the Maori are worn the carried corpse. Maori believes that people must not keep deceased alone until corpse is buried. Therefore somebody is in the side the corpse certainly. At the funeral service, family and the friend do not hide sorrow and people give a loud and cry. People thought this is in order to show deceased respect and softening the family's sorrow. In addition, Maori believes posthumous world. Therefore it is thought that people can leave for the posthumous when bury the corpse in the ancestral idle same grave. And people think that the soul meets ancestor again and can meet the soul of the descendant again there in the future.

4. Conclusion
Population of New Zealand has only one thirties of Japan but it is the country which full of the variety such people who have different culture and custom live. Therefore funeral service shows thought to respect difference and recognize free thought and action.

5. Bibliography
How to Walk of New Zealand from the World Wide Web:
http://www.arukikata.co.nz/content/view/241/379/
Information about International from World Wide Webhttp://www.shizensou.net/category/kaigai_folder/kaigai_ニュージーランド_main.html

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Report

I went to KGU with Aya today because I had to write a report on New Zealand. I took a The Course of Summer Study Abroad Program. I was supposed to go to New Zealand, but I could not go there.

I had been to examine for Funeral of New Zealand during the spring term, so I was finished the report on Funeral of New Zealand. I had to write 1000 words in English. It was too difficult for me to write the report in English. Aya and I could not finish the report yet, so we will finish it early.
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