Culture Shock: Kenyan Living in USA Shares How American Burial is Professionally Conducted in Minutes

• Mkenya American TV’s Gerriey Wainaina has shared a video showing the burial procedure
• He explained that burial procedures are carried out only by cemetery workers and only a few family members are allowed to throw sand on the grave.
• In the US, coffins are made of metal, while a cement box that will hold the coffin is placed in the grave and sealed with a cement block.

America is one of the most diverse countries in the world. It includes many different cultures from Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, making it a melting pot of diversity.

These cultures have come together to create an American culture. The customs and traditions of these cultures have been adopted into American culture, including funeral traditions.

Traditional American funerals are basic and usually include some religious rituals, followed by a procession to the burial and a small ceremony at the grave site.

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Gerriey Wainaina of Mkenya Amerika TV showed how Americans perform these burials while attending the burial of another Kenyan and pointed out the differences in burials between Kenya and the US.

Wainaina shared the video of the burial proceedings on his YouTube channel, noting that bodies buried in public cemeteries are usually buried in metal coffins.

“They are buried on the same day. There is nothing above ground,” he explained, explaining why the graves had flat surfaces.

“We bury him in a metal casket and there’s a cement box inside. The box is what the casket goes into and no soil is supposed to touch that thing,” he said.

In the video he shared, there was a tractor that he said holds a very large seal that covers the casket, which holds the casket, and professional cemetery workers do the entire burial process.

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After the body is placed in the cemetery, only a few family members and friends are allowed to throw sand on the grave, then the seal is lowered from the tractor to cover the cement box.

After that, sand brought in from another truck is poured to fill the grave before grass is placed on top to cover the burial site.

Source: TUKO.co.ke