Talk:Death anniversary

message: Do people celebrating a death anniversary abstain from alcohol or pleasure during these days? The food seems so good, at least in Vietnam, that one would think that at least that is pleasurable, and also, in the film The Vertical Ray of the Sun people seem to be drinking rice wine during this day. Badagnani (talk) 05:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: At least for the kids, it's always been a festive affair.  I've never seen any instance of the menfolk abstaining from alcohol in a ceremony such as this. I never questioned it as a kid, but when I came back there for my grandmother's first death anniversary last year, I was struck by how sexist it was...the women had to stay in the kitchen and do all the cooking while the men sit on the table being served on, talking politics and whatever else that they talk about.  Women eat in separate tables and only after the men have eaten.  DHN (talk) 05:16, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: One abstinence I know about is that the departed's closest relatives (direct descendants) are to refrain from marriage for 3 years.  I was made aware of this when my brother had to go through a special ceremony in order to be able to marry only 1 year after our grandmother passed away. DHN (talk) 05:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Abstinence?

message: The source above says that the mainichi is celebrated in Japan every seven days after the death of the person. So is a death anniversary not always annual, but celebrated in other intervals? If so, a "mainichi" isn't really a death "anniversary." Badagnani (talk) 05:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Annual?

message: In Vietnam, are the dishes usually homemade or may some be catered/purchased? Badagnani (talk) 06:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dishes are usually homemade. But because of many dishes and large size of familly in Vietnam, the cooking is really hard work. Nowadays, some famillies cater or purchase dishes.--Bình Giang (talk) 02:13, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Homemade or purchased?

message: The anniversary of a person's death is often celebrated in Western countries, so why does this article refer only to those death anniversaries celebrated by Asian cultures. In Ireland, family members often come together on the anniversary of one of the family member's death. For example, brothers and sisters will often meet on the anniversaries of their parents' deaths. This is often accompanied by a church remembrance mass, followed by a get-together dinner and then maybe a night out in the local pub. Ga2re2t (talk) 11:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: These sound good to add to the article, if they are sourced. I've never heard of the Irish tradition. Badagnani (talk) 05:52, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death anniversaries in Western/Christian traditions? 

message: Deathddays were in harry potter not in real life this page should be deleted  1  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.240.60.129 (talk) 19:30, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it exists. No, it should not be deleted. Read something besides Harry Potter. Boneyard90 (talk) 16:55, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: does this actually exist?

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message: Should something be included about how Western cultures remember their loved ones on the anniversaries of when they died? Spikymoss (talk) 16:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, and presumably others, like Lutheranism, deathdays are a common choice for a saint's feast day. For example, in (Western) Catholicism, Maximilian Kolbe's feast day is August 14, his deathday.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.101.127.249 (talk) 18:42, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Western traditions 

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