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Grief and cultural traditions

Across traditions—from Jewish sitting shiva to Hindu cremation rites to Christian vigils—cultures have created containers for grief that hold both individual pain and collective witness. These rituals work because they give sorrow a structure, a timeline, and a community, transforming private anguish into shared human passage.

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