It's almost 11.00 am and her home is awash with mourners from all walks of life, from far and near. Faces of most of them depict sorrow and sadness. Despite the distress, various cooking points have been set up to prepare food for the swelling number of mourners.

Being a funeral, gloom is supposed to be carrying the day all over the compound. But that is not so as various food stuffs are being readied from different angles. Doughs, chapatis, ugali and, meat resulting from slaughtered cattle make the mourners' tongues to wag with saliva.

This happens as the main stage is set for eulogies and the burial service. Family members eulogize the dead; children, brothers, sisters and uncles among others. Amid rolling tears, they recall their experiences with the slain, her ups and downs, illness and ultimately death.

The Anglican Churches of Kenya (ACK) priest then roll his sleeves to give a reading from the holy bible followed by a sermon relevant to the occasion. This is flanked by gospel songs that try to ease the situation. In some cases, the late are buried without 'divine intervention' because they used to be non believers.

The man of God moderates an offertory session; the money collected is left behind with the aggrieved family. This happens as people proceed to view the body. With that over, young energetic women (according to ACK doctrine) carry her remains to the grave yard where she is peacefully laid to rest.

But are there distinctions on how burial ceremonies were conducted in the past compared to today?

'In the past, relatives and neighbors brought cooked food to the aggrieved families but that is no longer the trend nowadays' says Mrs. Francisca Oenga who is 80 years old.

She adds that, in the days gone by, people were buried without clothes and not in caskets as it is today. 'Only the rich used to be buried in fresh animal skins while ordinary people were buried without anything', she says.