Cultural Death
How Societies Define the End
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”