Diverse Cultural Perspectives on Dying
Recorded May 18, 2023
- Barbara O’Hare/African American
- Joe Castillo/Mexican American
- Kuenga Lhendup/Buddhism in Bhutan
The contrast of sharing from our panelist was mind expanding, passionate and highly informative as each answered questions from us at Final Passages and from our listeners. Thank you all for your great questions and your donations to help sustain our Final Passages events, trainings, scholarship funds and our mission.
We thank Barbara, Jose and Kuenga for their gracious sharing of time, wisdom, humor and different approaches to dying and death. We heard a beautiful song from Barbara and she shared that “in the Nazarene faith lackluster songs at a memorial are thought to be abominable.”
Kuenga spoke about an astrologer being called in after a death to decide the best day for a cremation and Jose mentioned families creating Ofrendas as a way to honor their dead and the belief that the soul needs guidance in the afterlife. We hope you will listen to this fascinating conversation and share it with many others.
Embracing End of Life (EEoL) Community Education Series
Our live interactive online Embracing End of Life (EEoL) Series are free events brought to you by Final Passages, a 501(c)3 non-profit.People who register for the live events often givbe a donation at the time they register, and get the replay at no cost.
We offer these replays as a fundraiser. Contributions for Replays are directed to provide scholarships for our training programs, for reproducing and developing educational materials, publication of our book about family-directed home funerals, and other community and national outreach programs, including this monthly online series.
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