strategy

Remembering the dead as community members

Synonyms:
Living with the dead
Implementation:
With the Shona people of Africa, the final ceremony for the dead is inviting the spirit back home.

Jew site in the living room at home for a week after the burial of a family member. Friends, relatives and neighbours come to visit, birnging food, talking about the departed - laughing, crying, sharing memories. Then the family showly get back to ordinary life.

Facilitates:
Consoling the bereaved
Subjects:
Life Death
Society Communities
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities