This is an old and pious custom.

If, however, there is no man in the family to render this last service, the neighbours gladly offer their help.

It would be a grievous thing in Toroczko to have one's grave dug by a hired grave-digger.
In the afternoon the catafalque was erected in the church, and the entire population assembled to pay the last honours to the deceased.

The people sang, and the pastor delivered a funeral discourse.

Then all accompanied the remains to the rock-hewn cemetery.