Coping With Death

Dying Differently — Can Old Ways to Die Help Us Find New Ways to Live?

Changing grief rituals for a post-Covid world

Brandy L Schillace
Elemental
Published in
6 min readJun 27, 2021

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Photo: Raimond Klavins/Unsplash

A procession makes its way along a high ridge in the mountains. Dressed in bright colors, a group of Buddhist mourners beat hand-held drums by turning them side to side in rhythm. The steady plok-plok is accompanied…

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Brandy L Schillace
Elemental

(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her