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Podcast: The Life and Death Podcast
Episode: How different cultures deal with death and grief
Description: In the first episode of season six, journalist and author Erica Buist opens up about how the sudden death of her father-in-law forced her to confront her own mortality. Her quest to understand how different cultures approach death took her across seven countries, from Mexico’s Day of the Dead to Indonesia’s corpse parades.
Erica, author of This Party’s Dead, explores how these cultures celebrate death and allow grief to be expressed in ways that are communal and meaningful, in stark contrast to the isolated, sanitised practices common in the West. Along the way, she shares insights about...