Taking bodies away for cremation without any ritual likely to create mental problems
from Religion Media Centre:
“Take-away” funeral companies, which take the body away for cremation without any ritual or service, are becoming increasingly popular after heavy marketing on daytime TV in front of an elderly audience. But panellists on our recent RMC briefing wondered what the impact of this would be in future years on families who have not held any kind of ritual to say goodbye or honour their loved one, a kind of “death denial”. They suggested more research is needed and a greater awareness of the depth of bereavement requiring spiritual help.
Another area for future exploration is what happens to the digital presence of a person when they die. There is a growing area of work called “grief-tech”, looking at how to preserve or even re-create a person’s presence through their digital content. Our briefing on the Theos report: Love, Grief, and Hope: Emotional responses to death and dying, is on our YouTube channel here.
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