Death Rituals Around the World

Online Talk · Death Rituals Around the World with Author Naomi Westerman

Naomi Westerman was an anthropologist who travelled the world studying how people in other cultures use ritual to come to terms with death, when her entire family died suddenly. Now, Naomi is a death acceptance activist and author of the UK best-seller Happy Death Club, a collection of personal and anthropological essays exploring various facets of death and grief across cultures.

This talk covers her years working as a death anthropologist, covering diverse death rituals past and present, from the double burial practice in rural China, and mortuary endo-cannibalism in the Amazon jungle, to Mexico's Day of the Dead, Irish wakes and Jewish shiva ceremonies.

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