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The Order’s growing “death movement” is a reaction against the sanitization of death that has persisted in American culture since the 1800s.

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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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The death positive movement includes vital work that fights back against cultural appropriation, systemic racism, anti-LGBTQ sentiments, and general fear and lack of preparation for a certain event.

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