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When ongoing conversations with the dead become essential grief practice

I've been talking to my dead sister at her grave every week for a year and my family thinks I'm losing my mind but it's the only place I feel sane.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The continuing relationship between the living and the dead often requires physical spaces and ritual practices that others may pathologize.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief rituals across cultures — what they accomplish?”

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