Distractions in the forest and at sea. Forbes podcast, Oleg Vojtíšek with Julia Mahler
"If we don't do the funeral, the deceased will come to haunt us," it used to be said.
You don't believe in ghosts? You don't have to. The deceased can "haunt" our own souls. That we'll think, "I should have told him, it's too late now." That we'll never truly say goodbye, and we'll be left with an unfinished chapter, a gaping wound that no one sewed up.
That's what funerals are for. They are to help us bridge the period of life with the deceased who is suddenly not here.
But that death needs to be given some love. And as our Oleg Vojtisek discussed with Julia Mahler from Forbes in the podcast How to be better.
So go listen to it and make yourself feel better too :)