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Four years after my mother died, we still haven’t scattered her ashes
They’re in a plastic bag in my closet.
by Heidi Haverkamp
I keep a 36-inch utility shovel in my church office. I use it to dig the graves that hold the cremains of our congregation's saints.
by Peter W. Marty
Morticians haven't charged too much, they've done too much. With this precisely correct claim, Caitlin Doughty earns her contrarian stripes.
by Thomas Lynch
Cremation: A practice in need of ritual
As values change, so do funeral practices.
by Thomas G. Long