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When a spouse's death disrupts ongoing ancestral obligations

My wife died suddenly and I don't know any of the women's rituals she would have wanted done for her mother's shraddha next month and I feel lost trying to honor both of them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Loss compounds when the deceased was the keeper of sacred knowledge needed to honor others who came before.

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