The death of a family member is a big production in el campo. I recently talked to someone that told me it requires 9 days confined to the house with intense mourning with the whole family participating. The funeral takes place the day following the death. I'm sure there are other customs but I did not inquire. Do these practices vary from campo to campo or are there some hard and fast rules which apply to the death of a loved one throughout the DR? This appears to raise grieving to a new level. Quite a bit different here in the states where the funeral takes place three or four days later and involves only an hour long service. Usually only a few people show up for the actual burial, and that's when there's not an ever increasingly popular creamation. I guess we're too busy.