Grief and mourning

After a death, including the formal mourning periods traditions set.

Nothing published for this occasion yet

Material for grief and mourning is written and sourced, but no qualified reviewer has signed it, so none of it is public. A tradition appears here when someone credentialed in it has checked the texts and a chaplain has checked that they are appropriate to use.

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More specific moments

Pregnancy and infant loss

A grief that many traditions mark differently from other deaths, and some barely mark at all.

Funerals and burial

The service itself, and what is done with the body.

11 traditions are in the taxonomy. See which are open