Human Growth and Development / Unit 17 HGD 2448 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mourning Rituals
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The idea
Rituals support survivors or sustain ancestors: in southern Ghana, fantasy coffins commemorate a person's life, and the Nawfia of Nigeria hold a second funeral a year later.
In practice
Queen Victoria wearing black for forty years after Prince Albert's death in eighteen sixty-one.
Where people slip
Evidence on whether missed rituals leave grief unresolved is inconclusive, but rituals help when meaningful to mourners.
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