Sentences with phrase «different death ritual»

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Anthropologists have told us a great deal about how the ceremonies, beliefs and the social rituals of death differ greatly across the world, but we have few clues about how these different approaches affect how people experience the dead after they have gone.

End Notes is a collection of 10 interlinked stories about loss, mourning and commemoration.An English girl uses a Nigerian ritual to mourn her beloved grandmother; journalists in pursuit of a story carry out «the death knock»; siblings discover hidden aspects of their father's life when they attend his two very different funerals; a Spanish woman encounters unexpected tenderness and grace in a London hospice; a collector goes in search of ghost stories at a haunted Finnish manor; 1988, 2016, 2017 - what was wrong with those years?