Chapter 41 - What is the Klingon Death Ritual? (Patreon)

One of the few cultural things that was widely known about the race was that they were very practical when it came to how they treated the remains of their people, with very little funeral or burial rites to observe after death. The Klingon death ritual for warriors, for instance, which I’d seen performed several times in canon Star Trek episodes, only involved opening and staring into the eyes of the dying or dead individual, then bellowing loudly at the ‘sky.’ The bellowing supposedly warning the dead in sto-vo-kor that a Klingon warrior was about to arrive. It only took seconds to complete. That was in stark contrast to many other races’ practices. The Bajoran death chant, for instance, was a traditional funeral ritual practiced among some conservative Bajorans and was over two hours long. I had participated in several during my time with the Resistance, at least when we had the time to do so after a mission and we were in relative safety.