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Traditionally in India, Hindus are cremated along Traditionally in India, Hindus are cremated along the Ganges River as part of a month-long series of funeral rites intended to purify and prepare the soul to move out of the body and assist it in moving toward spiritual liberation. However, it is far too common that families cannot afford a full cremation, so bodies are only partially burned before being submerged in the river’s waters. Over the decades, there have been many different proposed solutions to this problem of so-called “corpse pollution,” some more far fetched than others. In the 1980s, the Indian government proposed a plan to release flesh-eating soft shell turtles into the Ganges, which used to be plentiful before they were hunted to near extinction. It spent over $30 million dollars to breed 25,000 turtles on a farm near Lucknow, but the plan never came to fruition. Probably for the best. . . . #TalkDeath #Cremation #India #Ganga #Ganges #Varanasi #Hindu #Hinduism #Moksha #Nirvana #Mukti #Corpse #Body #Death #Dying #Turtles #Turtle #DeathPositive #DeathPositivity #DeathAwareness #History #Ecology #Environment #Lucknow
@AngelaDeane is an artist whose work thinks throug @AngelaDeane is an artist whose work thinks through memory, time, and nostalgia. We particularly love her ghost photographs, where she paints ghosts on top of found photographs. 👻🖤 “Found photographs. Not necessarily lost but able to be found. A history held within a snapshot, Unknown. I put paint to paper and in doing so turn the specific into the abstract. Face becomes ghost. Person becomes vessel. And vessel is open for possession. (You may haunt these ghosts.) Through this manipulation of the material, the ghosts become us and we become the ghosts. We become the ghosts of our everyday.” . . . . #TalkDeath #AngelaDeane #Art #Photography #Paint #Painting #Memory #Ghost #Spirit #Nostalgia #Past #Death #Dying #ArtistsOfInstagram #Artist #DeathPositive #DeathPositivity #DeathAwareness
Next Week! Join us for A Day in the Life of a Hosp Next Week! Join us for A Day in the Life of a Hospice Nurse, an interactive Q&A with Michelle Lasota, a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse with over fifteen years of experience. 💜💜 If you have been thinking about your next career move, or you’ve been thinking about volunteering in hospice or palliative care, this event is for you! We will go in depth with Michelle about what this work entails on a daily basis and how you can begin the process if you are interested! This free, virtual event is hosted by @keepermemorials, @eol.round.glass, & ourselves! Reserve your spot today! Link in bio! . . . #HospiceNurse #Nurse #Hospice #DeathPositivity #DeathCare #EOLCare #Nurse #Nursing #NursingSchool #DeathDoula
This Thanksgiving, we thought it would be appropri This Thanksgiving, we thought it would be appropriate to highlight recent pushes to return Native American remains to their ancestral homes. In 1990, when Congress passed a law (NAGPRA) that set criteria under which Native American tribes could reclaim burial remains and sacred objects, legislators hoped it would encourage the return of items by museums, universities, and government agencies. However, that has not been the case. As of today, the remains of more than 116,000 Native American ancestors are still held by institutions around the country. To make matters worse, some institutions have yet to *even* inventory all the human remains and burial objects in their care as mandated by the law. The original deadline to complete the inventories was 1995. Seeking to address these harms, the Biden administration is seeking to make regulatory adjustments that would help expedite repatriation proceedings and require museums to identify who is in their collections. We sincerely hope that these changes come to fruition and that these people eventually make their way back to where they belong. 💔 Information via @NYTimes. 📸 Burial ceremony of Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan in 2014 by Marcella Hadden/Niibin Giizis Photography. . . . . #TalkDeath #Thanksgiving #Repatriation #Indigenous #NAGPRA #Death #Burial #NativeAmerican #Dying #DeathPositive #DeathPositivity #Bones #Justice #Colonialism
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              Environmental Impact of Funerals Infographic

              March 13, 20147358 views

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          • A COVID-19 Death Care Retrospective: Stories from our Forgotten Last Responders We give you these unedited perspectives from around the world…
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          • Green Burial Updates Green Burial Updates 2021 Just like your grandmother's perennials in early spring, the term…
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