Funerals, Weddings, and soda fountains.

[Derek Nahigyan]

What are Uantir's policies on funerals and weddings?
I've never been to a wedding, but I'm to understand they mainly center around the wedded couples along with alcohol and delicious ceremony food. I've heard you can get married anywhere: boat, gazebo, restaurant, Las Vegas, etc.
In Uantir where would such ceremonies be held.

In the meantime, being a veteran funeral goer, I've found that after the initial speech of the reverend or whosoever, the get together mutates into a bizarre high school reunion.
As I understand it, burying people in the ground is now a waste of space, wood, and money, whereas cremation is quick and more resourceful.
What are Uantir's policies on funerals? (If sermons should be held at all.)

That being said, I find the only real advantage of six feet under, is in the event of a zombie outbreak.
I commend those ashes who attempt to hop from a child's etch-a-sketch onto their face--hats off to you!

[Rook]

Weddings: The ceremony is unregulated. You can throw your shindig any which way you please. Unless it is breaking a pre-established law (you're wedding cannot be consecrated by a human sacrifice) I don't care how you do it, and I shouldn't have a say. It's your wedding. It doesn't matter where the wedding takes place, even if it's outside of Uantir as long as you're a citizen it will be recognized. There are no restrictions on the gender of marriage, same sex marriage is just as valid as opposite sex marriages. Though the marriage does have to remain within the species.

Now for the wedding to be recognized by the government it must be officiated by someone who is granted such powers by the Kingdom, including the clergy of any religion that registers itself with the ministry, certain nobles and members of the ministry, certain leadership positions such as sea captains etc. All in all it's much easier to get a marriage recognized in Uantir than many other places.

Funerals: Again, how you go about it is your business. What you say before hand depends on your preference (or I guess the living's preference really) of religion and ceremony. What's said, who says it and where the party takes place is all up to you or whomever is taking care of your affairs.

About burial, there are still a number of cultures and religions that dislike cremation, and that's fine. Embalming is not mandatory. There will always be designated cemetery space but if you own the property you're allowed to bury, tomb, catacomb or whatever according to your wants and finances. Cremation has to be done at a facility that does it properly and safely. As there are cultures that enjoy pyres for cremation the facilities that do indoor cremation will also be mandated to have the ability to do open pyre in a safe way. At home funeral pyres can be too dangerous, but a permit can be obtained in certain circumstances.

Corpse burial at sea needs to be done at a safe distance from shore with proper ground tackle so as not to frighten beach goers, though ashes at sea are relatively harmless and thus unregulated.

I'm not sure I understand that last sentence very well, but I think cremation is better for the zombie threat because without corpses there are no zombies.

[Rook]

Bump, in case anyone has an opinion.