There is an Afrikan Tradition where the wailing women are called to mourn death.  They go from door to door announcing the death by wailing. The men are silent................................................ Then there is a great celebration of life. This is Juanita Bynum singing a song about the Wailing Women. ............................................ (Jeremiah 9:18-19)....................... Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them. Let them come out quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids. The sound of wailing is heard from Zion;............... .......................