[nashashmi]

Cultures don't change. New cultures form. Old cultures die.

The judgement is attached to the significance of the person. The right casket, right dress, right ceremony. But ritual comes from religion.

A new religion around sustainable life will adopt this method. The others who adopt will be the fringe individuals.

[cftorres]

I'm talking about culture in its general concept as the "cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings..." I say it taking in account that changes in human behavior are not an abrupt jump from white to black. http://people.tamu.edu/~i-choudhury/culture.html