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How families split over what honors the dead appropriately

I want to bury my wife's ashes under the oak tree in our backyard but my children think it's morbid and want her in a proper cemetery.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different visions of sacred space and proper reverence can fracture families already broken by loss.

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