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Five death rituals to give you a new view on funerals

Five death rituals to give you a new view on funerals

8 November 2017

Every culture has a different death ritual – some involving levels of intimacy that would be unthinkable to people in the West. Here are just five of them
Death: A special report on the inevitable

Death: A special report on the inevitable

2 November 2016

The only certain thing in life is that it will one day end. That knowledge is perhaps the defining feature of the human condition.

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