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An Introduction to the Death-Positive Movement

By FindCenter — 2022

In most modern cultures, it’s common for people to feel uneasy about death. We express this discomfort by avoiding conversations on the topic and lowering our voices when speaking of the dead and dying. We hire professionals to bury our dead and keep our children home from funerals, telling them that these affairs are only for adults because they’re too scary for kids. We pay large sums of money for caskets that can’t prevent our eventual decomposition. Some people are taking a different approach. They are members of the death-positive movement.

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Death and Dying