During the critique I was told to look at the documentary of Karl Pilkington, if you know his name then yes you are correct, he is usually the guy that features in Idiot Abroad. He did a mini series called the Moaning of Life, but the episode I was interested in was 'death'. It was about eastern attitudes toward death and how they treat the dead/dying. He travels through eastern continents such as Africa and Asia, visiting in on funerals, grave-sites, cemeteries and mausoleums. His reactions and narrative are comical throughout the episode, its still interesting to see these third world countries, cultural traditions with their dead; which are so opposite from the westernised traditional attitudes to death, that its quite shocking.One thing that became clear to me whilst watching this is that western and eastern attitudes toward death are polar opposites, they are completely different.
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