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In 1987, in a small village in northwestern India, a young widow stood beside the funeral pyre that held the body of her husband. It's an ancient Hindu funeral right known as sati and by practicing it, this young widow became one more participant in a very old tradition. Sati as a practice dates back at least 2,000 years. In the last 15 years prior to its ban in 1829, over 8,000 women died as a result of sati.

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