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episode is all about grief rituals for hope and healing.

That's the thing about a funeral, like our one remaining grief ritual is like an event, know what I mean like that which requires

event planning and a program and in some ways a performance it lacks an intimacy that I

think rituals from the past and rituals in other countries have, but a ritual to me is most powerful when it's something you do with someone else, with a group of people and it has this agreed upon kind of meaning and purpose and

it speaks to a communal emotion or a communal need and most grief rituals throughout history have involved like the neighbors and extended family.

It kind of acknowledged our wider net of communal support, whereas now we tend to grieve either

alone or just in our small nuclear families.

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Grief is arguably one of the hardest things

we humans have to deal with.

And this might sound weird, but overall life is neutral. Our emotional

suffering doesn't just come from life events. Our suffering comes from

our response to those events. the way we perceive them, and most of all, the meaning that we give them.

Grief is such a prime example of that because it's our response to loss.

We might think that it's the loss that hurts,

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