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[Darrell]

Quote:I'm not sure if that's unique to Applachia... but that is how it works here.

Down here the viewings I've been privy to are usually one night for 4-6 hours the evening before the funeral.

I think the past expediency of getting bodies in the ground quickly due to the weather has shortened the cultural expectation of how long the whole affairs should last.

Where I grew up in the tropics it was very rare to have more than a day or two between a death and a burial.