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Human composting, launching ashes into space - What the Church has to say about nontraditional burials

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Mary Farrow
Jun 23, 2021
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Among the more bizarre trends to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic - besides Americans’ short-lived obsession with the unscrupulous owners of big cats - is a rise in popularity of unconventional modes of burial.

It may not come as a surprise that a global pandemic which has claimed 600,000 U.S. lives has become its own memento mori. What some may find mo…

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