235: On Grief and Healing with Amanda Held Opelt
The Next Right Thing
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What the Irish Used to Do at a Funeral
The irish used to have women in the community serve as lead keeners at wakes. The whalers would initiate the climax of the wake, which was a time of just public crying. They would sometimes sing songs and tribute to the person that had died but mostly it was just moans and groan ones and screams. And they would cry and pay tribute to the one who had just died,. But they would also be crying over loved ones that they had lost ten years ago or five years ago.
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