I am trying to find out about a few Shona customs:-

1. Is it part of the Shona culture not to relate bad news directly but rather idiomatically, for example one would not say of an ill person that they are gravely or seriously ill and they might die but rather, one might they are not as well as could be?

2. Are there customary procedures in dealing with bereavement, i.e. dissemination of news of death and conduct of the funeral itself.

Many thanks. Tatenda.