In villages the dead are laid in state at home, but in town this is usually done in funeral parlours.
Coffins have six sides and taper off toward the foot.
There may be more candles and seats for the immediate kith and kin at the side of the coffin. They are also placed round the coffin on the floor together with baskets and bunches of flowers. A little picture of a saint and a rosary are placed in the dead man's hands. The funerals of young people are more pompastic, they are sometimes laid out in their wedding clothes, adorned with sprays of rue. Wreaths are made of oak, pine or fir twigs studied with flowers.