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The Healing Sound of Singing Bowls: Jesse Stark explains how sound healing creates a positive outlook on life and death -
“Summons” by Aurora Levins Morales: Peaceful activism opens arms for grief and mourning in a beautiful poem -
How To Dispose of a Body In Space: Scientists ponder what to do when someone dies on a space mission
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“The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.”
- Téa Obreht from her novel "The Tiger's Wife"
Who is Left to Pay?
In some cultures, lavish funerals take families to the brink of bankruptcy
In Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, an impoverished widow spends her last rubles on her husband’s funeral and ends up destitute with her three children. The bitter satire of that chapter can still ring as true today as it did in … Continue reading
