The Metaphysics of Body Disposal

How a community treats the physical remains of its dead is a window into its foundational beliefs.

Gem Jackson
The Apeiron Blog
Published in
9 min readApr 15, 2021

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László Hegedűs, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Communities tell us what they really believe through how they dispose of their dead.

When my cousin died a few years ago, we marked the occasion by singing Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon in the chapel of a local…

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