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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

Don't close off funerals as the window for us to grieve our loss

THE last few funerals I have been to have been billed as a celebration of life. Whatever happened to grief? Your attitude to funerals will depend on your beliefs about death.

One view says that we are just atoms and energy and that death is where your atoms go back into the soil and you cease to exist. It's like a modern version of stoicism.

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