“What do you think of traditional funerals?” was the question we put in writing and anonymously to 400 secondary school students (as many boys as girls) at school. More than two thirds of the sample criticized funerals; a change of mentality toward traditional funerals is likely to occur. This is discernible in the youths' reluctance to meet the expenses of large and long funerals.
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