I wonder how traditions around death help us to deal with it. I feel completely incapable of handling death.. I do not know how to comport myself.
I was very religious for 30 years, and have a very religious family. I've been athiest for more than a decade now, and it's sad to me that to leave religion behind I had to give up all my family traditions to process death. Those traditions are still there, but I can't relate to them since they are based on a belief I no longer agree with