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by rubidium 5170 days ago
"Have you ever been at a cemetery, making a mass-visit to a dead loved one?" People do that all the time. Some cultures have a whole "day of the dead" to remember the deceased. The medium may be different (and the reach a bit farther), but the relationship with death is the same.
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Yep, Chinese have a day devoted to this. We burn money and eat good tasting food.
It's not actual money.
In some cultures people unbury loved ones once a year to dance with them.

Not an anthropologist and would not know details, but found this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...