I was unable to post for a long time.

My father-in-law was expired last month. The funeral process of us (Hindus) is very elaborate and ritualistic. We had to take meal one in a day for ten days and the meal was consists of only boiled vegetables and rice without pepper or lemon. My husband and his brothers could not apply oil on any of their body parts and could not comb their hair or had a shave. On tenth day the had to shave their head.

On eleventh day the ultimate process of funeral (shraddha) took place. After that we took fish in our meal (this ritual is called matsamukh ) and the funeral process was over.