The Issue of Death In Harry Potter

[iam2cute4u2have2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 91587

Alright, first and firemost this is my first post here. Hi i'm 
Alisha! I'm not technically a grown up, but I actually possess brain 
cells, so feel free and imagine that I'm a 'grown up' because I have 
the mind of a forty year old.

Now that that's done, don't shoot me if someone has asked this 
already. I know this may found very morbid, but I've always wondered 
about the concept of Death in Harry Potter. I'm just really curious 
about how witches and wizards deal with the subject of death, and do 
they have funerals for their dead? I've been trying to look this up 
on discussion boards and in the books themselves, and so far I've 
only found little clues.

One clue I found was towardes the end of Goblet of Fire, when Harry 
saw the 'echo' of Diggory telling him to take him to his parents. 
Obviously, the Diggory's must have recieved their sons body and done 
something with it. 

I don't think they BURY their dead like we do, because no one in the 
books has ever mentioned to Harry a gravesite where his parents' 
bodies could be. So obviously, if they don't bury the departed, they 
don't have funerals. But then, what do they do?

Also, I'm not sure this is in the book, but in the movie, (I know, 
shoot me) when Harry was in Riddle's journal, they were carrying 
Mrytle's body off on a strecher, it's very uh... mugglelish don't you 
think? But then again, Rowling was very involved in the production of 
the movies, and I don't think she'd allow this detail in the movie if 
this is not what wizards did with their dead. 

Alright! I need to stop before I go mad! Please , anybody, help me 
out on this, feel free to e-mail me at Alisha0715 at aol.com with your 
theories.