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There is perhaps nothing quite so human as the way in which we honor our dead. It is something we have always done, it is something we will always do. Perhaps the oldest burial site in the world, Taforat, shows signs of postmortem processing and ritualistic items left amongst the dead.
Sometimes, people commit to pre-planning and even pre-paying for their services. Often, we express wishes for how we d like to make our final appearance among family and friends. I have a playlist on my Spotify for the occasion. It may seem morbid or odd, but to me, music has always been the loveliest part of being alive. And I want to be remembered as a living person, not a vacated body.
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When Beth Hoeltke starts talking about death, her face lights up and her eyes begin to sparkle.
“I’ve actually been called the Death Lady,” she says, laughing heartily enough to make the tiny silver hoops on her ears swing. “I wouldn’t call myself that. I like to discuss death and what it means and how we should talk about it but I’m not the Death Lady.”
Hoeltke, who leads the graduate school at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, started writing about death about three years ago, motivated by the connections she was seeing between her academic research in the theology of creation and what seemed to her to be a gap in how Western culture addresses or rather, doesn’t address the way we die.