Religion Unmuted
Religion Unmuted
Boniuk Institute and Religion and Public Life Center
Unclaimed Doesn't Mean Unmourned
30 minutes Posted Nov 1, 2024 at 8:29 pm.
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Bringing her journalistic eye to a sociological problem, Pamela Prickett gives listeners insight into a growing American issue: thousands of bodies are going unclaimed by relatives after death—up to 150,000 each year. Prickett unpacks the why behind the issue, as well as the ways that religion is being used to craft rituals and communities of care so that people do not go unremembered or unmourned.