You can't generalized mate, there are countries that could have this as their tradition, so you can't blame them.
Just read it here:
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In the Philippines, gambling is not just a pastime, but a way to honor the dead. Betting games, mah jong, and card tables are often set up at Filipino wakes, or paglalamay, where the tradition is to keep a 24-hour vigil over the deceased until the burial. Making wagers at games such as "sakla", the Philippine version of Spanish tarot cards, is particularly common at wakes, because the family of the deceased gets a share of the winnings to help cover funeral expenses.[42]
“It has its functions, it is a way of keeping mourners around,” Randolf David, a sociology professor at the University of the Philippines, told Reuters. Businesses dedicated to operating these games go from one wake to another, David said. He added that small syndicates often operate such games, moving from one wake to another.[43]
“It has its functions, it is a way of keeping mourners around,” Randolf David, a sociology professor at the University of the Philippines, told Reuters. Businesses dedicated to operating these games go from one wake to another, David said. He added that small syndicates often operate such games, moving from one wake to another.[43]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_the_Philippines
So for them it's not disrespect, but a way to honor the person and specially if the person is poor, they can get some money from the result of gambling itself as they can get some from those gamblers specially the one that won.
This is crazy to me and I will never regard gambling as a way of mourning the dead or rather as a means of raising funds for the dead. What if during the cause of the gambling, the gamblers involve in fights, isn't it burdening to you? There should always be a better way of making a befitting funeral for the dead but count gambling out of it. This is similar to people who drink alcohols and get themselves heavily drunk in the name of wake keeping? I don't think any right minded person won't regard this kind of honor.
The fact that the Philippines are practicing this does not justify the reason why we should make it right. Even though whenever we come up with discussions like this, people quickly mention utterances such as they are entitled to their lifestyles or culture. That it is their tradition to do so does not still make it right to me. There are always better ways to mourning the dead.
What a weird way to mourn the dead. I mean talk about how there is a near certain possibility that you’re going to make a bad situation much worse and potentially make the loss so much greater if they’re on a losing streak. I guess though if they win a lot of money and one of the family members pays for all of the funeral costs and throws a banger that would be cool way to end tho too. I mean if it went that way it doesn’t sound so bad then, right? 😂
Yes, its really that indeed a weird way but just like on what been said that majority does really talks about that this is really that part of the cultural aspect of a certain country on which there's nothing we can do
if they will really be having that kind of approach whenever there's someone is dead and doing something on the wake. Doesnt talks about escape into something about stress and sadness or sorrow into its
family members on which i have said that not all would really be that playing with this or in the time of this one happens. So be it and just let them be on the things that they would really be that gonna tending to do.
As long there would be no to trouble or any issues then it will really be that just simply fine.
