Do you know of the tradition called in-coffin? [Spirituality & Religion]

Here in the region where I pastor this tradition is very much alive. The day after someone has died the family and neighbors come together to lay the deceased into the coffin. Well, in reality that is already done, but the coffin is open and at the end of the ceremony everyone has a chance to look at the deceased one last time. The funeral is then a few days later.