What Do We Owe the Dead?
This is what it means to be alive
4 min readMay 29, 2023
I lived most of my life as part of a faith tradition(1) that made doing work for the dead a central tenant of not only religion, but of life(2).
It was taken for granted that we all have souls, or spirits, that will continue to exist after we have sluffed off this mortal coil.
