Why We Should Celebrate Death

Why We Should Celebrate DeathConstant Wonder • Season 2, Episode 29, Segment 1

Aug 31, 2022 • 43m

In some cultures, the dead are regularly exhumed and carried about in celebration. Why, in the West, are we so much more somber about death and dead bodies? And what can we learn from the carnival atmosphere at many death festivals? Guest: Erica Buist, author of "This Party’s Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World’s Death Festivals"

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