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Among the Bukusu the dead had to earn and not demand respect

Until the 1940s, the Bukusu dumped bodies of the dead in forests, believing that animals only ate the carcases of the morally upright, ways that started fading when the need to stop communicable diseases set in. Woe onto you if you committed suicide as your body will be whipped "until tears rolled down your cheeks."

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