[therut]

Go look at some cemetaries sometimes. All I have ever been in you are lying on your back feet to the east. Waiting the coming of Christ. Everyone. I will be planted facing EAST not Mecca.

[muawiyah]

I've gone to hundreds of pioneer cemetaries. They have folks buried foot to foot, head to the North, head to the South, buried in circles around a central point (an all time favorite style among Swiss polygamists), and so forth.

I suspect this is strictly an European thing and probably applicable only to those from a Catholic or Orthodox tradition as a general rule.

In any case, many Protestants know that "Christ will come in the clouds", and, consequently know that you can't tell what direction that is.