I want to include sage burning and traditional songs at my husband's funeral but it's being held at a Christian church and the pastor says those elements would be inappropriate and I feel caught between honoring two parts of who he was.
More people experience this than they realize.
Institutional religious boundaries can force families to fragment the spiritual identity of their loved ones, making death a site of cultural as well as personal loss.
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