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When families clash over funeral spiritual practices

My adult siblings and I are planning our mother's memorial service and we're discovering we all have completely different ideas about what would honor her spiritual beliefs and it's bringing up years of unresolved family religious tensions.

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Death demands ceremony, but when grief meets divergent beliefs about the sacred, even love cannot easily bridge the divide over how to honor a life.

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