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This conscientious watching over the deceased day and night, with a marked participation of neighbours and people close to the family, was common practice until the 1970s.
=== Reciting the Rosary rosary at dusk ===
In many places, particularly, in the southern Southern Basque Country (lying within Spain), dusk was when a notable religious act took place in the house of the deceased, which was the reciting of the rosary and when the relatives of the person who had died, all the neighbours and people close to the family would be present. The deep-rootedness and the extent of this practice rather indicate that this act was considered part of the domestic funeral rites.
In fact, it was the central ritual of the wake and was generally so well-attended that the people filled the different rooms of the house. The people surveyed in Gipuzkoa explained that the full 15 decade Rosary rosary used to be said then.
== The room with the deceased ==
== Laying out the corpse ==
The way of laying out of the corpse while it was still in the house has changed over time. The oldest way was to put it on the bed. Later on, the corpse was placed in a coffin in the death chamber. Sometime later, the coffin was placed in the most important room of the house in the southern Southern Basque Country, while it could be in a specially prepared mortuary area in the hallway of the house in the Northern Basque Country.
== The coffin ==
== Trolleys and stretchers ==
Even though historical documents frequently refer to the use of stretchers or trolleys, the answers of the interviewees – in —in the majority of places surveyed – surveyed— indicate that the practice had fallen out of use some time ago or that, in any event, it was restricted to special tasks. Some of them had not heard anything about them. In other cases, these are of modern production and have been used to make it easier to take the coffin to the church or cemetery.
== Burning the pallet ==