My thoughts are:
The traditional 1-day, 2-day, or 3-day funerals are way too time-consuming and costly. I think everyone should just get cremated when they die. Cremation is much more economical and environmentall y friendly. You won't be taking up land anywhere and you'll be cutting down the funeral costs by 90%. Wouldn't it be much better that your family/kids spend the $15,000-$40,000 they would have otherwise spent on a traditional funeral on a nice vacation for themselves, on a down payment on a nice house, or on other more important things? Why would you want to burden your love ones with a huge funeral bill and burden them with the stress of planning a long funeral? Also, how important really, are the other aspects of a Hmong funeral (the rituals, paper money, sacrificing animals, ua hauv qhua, hais xim, etc)?
