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The Importance of Black Feminine Beautification Rituals for Funerals in American Religion
In the United States, Black communities have not always been granted the right to honor or memorialize their dead. In Clint Smith’s account ...
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Grief Work: Mourning as Labor in a World That Won’t Stop Working
The compression of grief under neoliberal, capitalist time makes our lives smaller and mourning that much harder.
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Job Opportunity: Virtual Funeral Technician
Job Opportunity: Virtual Funeral Technician Adhoc/Part Time Remote Position Keeper is a digital memorialization solutions provider driven by passionate people who help individuals, ...
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Climate Change Catastrophe: The Disappearance of Ancestral Graves in the Pacific Islands
Climate change exposes a deep injustice for many coastal communities: the denial of the right to grieve in place.
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Where the Fire Still Burns: Métis Wake Traditions on the Prairies
The first wake that I attended was conducted in a curling rink. It was winter in Saskatchewan, and outside the snowbanks loomed over ...
Death Care
What Death Care Can Learn From Disability Justice
Disability Justice’s approach can provide death care with the necessary tools to reckon with the complex and overlapping issues faced at the end-of-life.
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A Beginner’s Guide to South Africa’s Cemeteries
In the Global North, cemeteries are generally recognised as important sites not just for burial, but also as community assets for safeguarding and ...
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Marked by Loss: Memorial Tattoos as Modern Grief Ritual
Grief is always this weird thing. No matter how many times it taps us on the shoulder—or wallops us in the face—it never ...
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Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a Caretaker of an Abandoned Cemetery
Mount Moriah Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery, hosting 150,000 burials and sprawling over hundreds of acres across Southwest Philadelphia and Yeadon, Pennsylvania. ...
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Traditional Chinese Death Rites and Superstitions Explained
Death rites are essential to honor our loved ones, but as a devoutly superstitious people, the Chinese also view death as a source ...
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Funeral Traditions from Ireland: How the Irish Embrace Death
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Today is the anniversary of the death of Saint Patrick. We celebrate his Feast Day, which ...
