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Ceremonies for honoring the departed are crucial parts of our lives, but few people know where our traditional practices come from\u2014and what they reveal about our history, culture, and beliefs about death. In today’s podcast, Tami Simon speaks with funeral director, embalmer, and certified postmortem reconstructionist and cremationist Todd Harra to talk about the roots of the Western funeral and to remove some of the fears that surround it. Their riveting conversation looks at: the myths and misconceptions about the funeral director, the sacred responsibility of handling the deceased, the rise in home funerals in our time, the origins of the practices of embalming and coffin burial, the different shades of the “green” cemetery and burial, why there is great value in permanent memorialization, making a ceremony sacred, why simply showing up is the greatest way to support those in mourning, mushroom suits and the controversy around them, the process of natural organic reduction (NOR), and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19740,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[386],"tags":[170],"contributor":[1028],"class_list":["post-19739","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-insights-at-the-edge","contributor-todd-harra"],"yoast_head":"\nLast Rites Wisdom From A Fourth Generation Undertaker | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Listen to this Insights at the Edge podcast exploring last rites wisdom from a fourth generation undertaker. 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