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If the family is involved with care for the dead body, it can completely transform how they feel about the death; they can feel empowered, they can feel connected and they can feel like they were there at the very end.

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It’s about changing the way we perceive mortality, and cultivating a healthy relationship to it.

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The Order hope(s) to get us all a little more comfortable with the idea of death, the rituals around it and the inevitability of it all.

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