My brother and I are planning our father's memorial service and he wants traditional religious elements that our dad explicitly rejected while I want to honor dad's actual beliefs even though they make our extended family uncomfortable. We're stuck between honoring our father's truth and keeping family peace and neither of us knows how to navigate it.
More people experience this than they realize.
Death reveals the fault lines between honoring the departed's authentic beliefs and protecting the living family's need for comfort and unity.
“Where Are You with Norse and Germanic paganism?”
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