Lisa Caraway Oliver, EdD, GC-C | Published 06.13.2021 So…I serve as a Lay Eucharistic Minister (LEM) at the church I … More
Category: Funeral Faith Traditions
Grandma’s traditional Jamaican wake brought me closer to the Windrush generation
Courtesy of TheGuardian.com | By Guilia Rhodes | Originally Published 05.05.2018 | Posted 06.20.2018 The ‘nine night’ ritual of gathering … More
Fearing Death, and Photographing the Rituals That Surround It
Courtesy of TheNewYorkTimes.com | By John Otis | Photos by Chanho Park | Originally Published 04.30.2018 | Posted 06.13.2018 The … More
The final act of love: ‘I knew I wanted to keep him with me’
Friends visited the flat and cried for him and told him jokes and sang songs and slipped small gifts into his hands. Extended family decorated his coffin in the back garden. Edmeades and their children placed him into it and sealed the lid themselves. They drove him to the crematorium and accompanied his coffin to the furnace door.
Funeral etiquette: How rituals differ by faith
Courtesy of TheStar.com | By Isabel Teotonio| Originally Posted 05.26.2014 | Published 09.30.2017 Going to a funeral for someone of … More
