The Why Factor
The Why Factor
BBC World Service
Why do funerals matter?
24 minutes Posted Aug 12, 2019 at 12:57 pm.
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Christopher Gunness explores why funerals matter so profoundly to us, as individuals and societies. He talks to people who have lost loved ones in Ghana, Pakistan and the UK about the challenges they have faced. He discovers how burial and cremation have become popular in different countries at different times, visits a green burial place and looks at the growing world of online memorials.

Presenter: Christopher Gunness

Producer: Bob Howard

(Photo: Ghana, Accra Funeral Service. Credit: Getty Images)