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Where, Exactly, is Heaven?

Where, Exactly, is Heaven?

My mom told me about working as a travelling home economist in the early 1960’s. An elderly woman pulled her aside one day, and in all seriousness, asked her where heaven was.

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What To Do With Someone’s Ashes?

What To Do With Someone’s Ashes?

In the heightened emotion around a death, not having to make decisions about disposition can be a relief. It might also leave things hanging, ritually speaking.

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The Grace of Deathbed Visitations

The Grace of Deathbed Visitations

Just as it does at a birth, the veil between the worlds thins during a death, and the other side of the river can become more visible.

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The Problem with a Happy Funeral

The Problem with a Happy Funeral

The problem with trying to have a happy funeral is, that when someone we love dies, we aren’t happy, we’re sad. There can be parts of a funeral that have happiness. But when someone we care about dies, the normal and natural

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Home Deathcare: Tending to the body

Home Deathcare: Tending to the body

Families have the option to care for the bodies of their deceased loved ones at home. For those who chose this option, the experience is personal, meaningful, and deeply healing.

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Green Funerals: The Ultimate in Recycling

Green Funerals: The Ultimate in Recycling

Before industrial technology, we returned our dead to the earth directly through the transformative powers of Air, Fire, Water and Earth. We can still do that today.

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Keeping Someone’s Ashes in Your House

Keeping Someone’s Ashes in Your House

If you have someone’s ashes in your house, it’s probably for one of three reasons. First, you may be holding onto ashes because it’s the right thing for you to do.

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A Good Death is a Ritual of Initiation

A Good Death is a Ritual of Initiation

Here’s an audio recording of the paper for the 2017 Arts and Religion track of the American Academy of Religion conference. The topic was “A good death is a ritual of initiation for everyone involved.”

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The Beauty of a Family Graveyard

The Beauty of a Family Graveyard

All my mother’s ancestors are buried in the same small graveyard. There has been a steady trickle of family members join them around that tree over the last 80 years

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