Vancouver Sun 

As more than 1,000 mourners prepare to pay their last respects Sunday to five of the six people struck and killed on an unlit Abbotsford road, prayers have already begun.
Families of the victims gathered at Abbotsford's Khalsa Diwan Society Friday afternoon for a reading of the scriptures from the Guru Granth Sahib, or the Sikh Holy Book.
The continuous reading of the 1,430-page scriptures, considered a prayer for the souls of the dead, takes about 48 hours to finish and is timed to coincide with the end of Sunday's funerals. Four people will read from the book, switching readers every two hours.  
The final prayer will be read during a two-hour ceremony at the Khalsa Diwan Society after the funerals.
"It's done for every deceased; they pray for their salvation," Ajit Anand, secretary of the society's temple, said Friday.
About 100 people were at the society Friday night for the start of the Guru Granth Sahib, a holy book of song, poems and scriptures, which is considered by strict Sikhs as a "living guru."
The book is believed to lead humans out of a dark era to a life of peace, tranquility and spiritual enlightenment, according to Sikh sources.