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Death Positivity is on the rise. And it looks… strange in a lot of ways. Caitlin Doughty is a rockstar and the now deceased Jon Underwood is a savior for popularizing Death Cafés world-wide. There are a few other ways that death positivity is spreading its wings and it’s a little less obvious about what kind of impact it is having. There was/is a woman in France who offers to bottle up the scent of your departed loved one and sell it to you. I thought at first the scent would be extracted from the dead human, like what’s done with skunks. And, the mortician let’s the perfumer do that?  I guess it’s more like they try to mimic the scent gathered from the dead person’s clothing. Hummm. Also available in addition to the not so common sea burial is space burial. There’s a service in England that will blast your cremains up into space for about 10,000 pounds. That might seem like an excessive price, but let’s keep in mind that the average funeral in the US costs about $10,000...

Note: This article was written for a news site called Shambhala Times. Shambhala Buddhism is a western spin on traditional Tibetan Buddhism... There may be a few unfamiliar words  How to meet our young adult and teenage children as and where they are What is the ultimate goal we are seeking regarding educating and caring for our children, in our sangha and on the planet? The truth is, at present, they instead need to educate  us . Our children are faster than we are. They see more than us, they see differently from us, they use different language. The sooner we listen, watch, and really delve into the minds and hearts of our young adults, teenagers, and children, the sooner we will be able to help guide and care for them. Presently, we do not know them. They are being raised in a manner in which no one over the age of 25 can understand.  Often they are living two lives, one with us on the planet and one within the vast cosmos of their phones. In a world that ...