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What’s a Shameful Burial?

Caroline Vuyadinov writes:

I think a shameful burial is one where the system fails, when laws do not allow families to fill out forms for burial because they do not have an education to embalm, or when there are not affordable options open to them.

Read the whole thing for some truth-telling about the real meaning of funerals (spoiler: it has nothing to do with money or the particular rituals) and how our culture burdens grieving people with guilt they don’t deserve.

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