So What Do You Feed the Dead?
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In buddhism, there is the oban festival, where food is placed upon altars for the return of ancestral spirits. In india, hindoo priests offer sweetmeats and other auspicious treats during a cremation. We bury pharaohs with food. And we even pour out a drink for fallen friends and family. Regardless of culture, time or place, we humans around the world have rights or rituals of death which involve food.
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