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[quote=Anonymous]My mom just died. We are Hindu but I am agnostic/atheist. The rituals our family does gives some measure of comfort, but my observation is that I am much more comfortable and accepting of her death and the finality of it, which ended six months of extreme suffering from cancer, than my brother and father who are religious/magical thinkers. I see her clearly in my heart and in my children, in my own habits and expressions and way of viewing the world. That is enough to give me comfort. She was a great woman, but she no longer Is. My dad paid a priest for 13 days of elaborate ritusls yo send my moms spirit to heaven. After the second day i could no longer politely participate. The explanationsvof the rituals were even more bizarre than the actual acts. I chose to clean up the house of my mothers belongings, and found that staying busy brought me peace. i have explaned to my young children that death is a natural and inevitable outcome, and posed God as a question rather than a  certainty. They have taken it well, even though they were very close to grandma.[/quote]

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