For my culture development, I choose the topic of death and dying in the Sati culture in India. This culture was composed around 200 CE and belongs to the Laws of Manu (“Sati Introduction”, n.d.). Sati occurs when a Hindu wife becomes a widow who is not allowed to remarry. She would be labeled as a Sati for the meaning of pure or virgin. However, this term was also used as a ritual of self-sacrifice in which the wife would throw herself into her husband’s pyre (“Sati Introduction”, n.d.). This ritual was set in place because people believed the widow would become a goddess and in return give good future back to her birth and marital families (“Sati Introduction”, n.d.).
One information that was intriguing was how the widow had to sacrifice
One information that was intriguing was how the widow had to sacrifice