Cultural Death

How do belief systems shape our response to death?

Focus:

• Rituals, myths, and cosmologies of death (across cultures)

• Indigenous perspectives on death as transition

• Western denial vs. Eastern acceptance

• Funeral rites, ancestor reverence, and soul continuity

• The death of culture: societal entropy and collapse

Optional Cheatsheet: “Death Across Cultures: Meaning, Ritual, and Transition”