My best friend and I have been planning how we want to be remembered and what death means to us, but she's coming from a Buddhist perspective about impermanence and I'm wrestling with my Catholic upbringing, and we keep talking past each other when we try to discuss what really matters about mortality and legacy.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that their different religious and philosophical frameworks for understanding death create barriers to the intimate conversation they both want to have.
“Where Are You with Memento mori across traditions?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.