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The unexpected death of a friend and colleague to COVID-19 in January 2021 led me to start researching how American death rituals were transforming during the pandemic. My friend was Hindu, and while ...

Death is a shared commonality of the human condition, yet the rituals that attend it vary significantly across cultures and religions. The one commonality is that while the nature of death itself does ...

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