Dr. David DeSteno

And I think it's true.

As I look at it, the practice of Shiva to me has all the right pieces.

And for me,

So like eulogizing happens in all faiths.

And what I like to say is there are convergences in these, right?

If you're a cultural anthropologist, you're seeing convergent evolution in terms of the cultural things that we can do to put our bodies in the right way.

Or if you're a person of faith, you can say, well, you know, God cares about God's creations.

And so we're all embodied in the same way.

And so the same practices are going to matter.

But some groups may have figured things out more than another.

I think, I mean, eulogizing is the big one.

At Irish wakes, at some Irish wakes, they do cover mirrors.

They have a completely different theological story for why they do it.

Yeah, what do they say?

I think it's something about keeping evil spirits away.

I don't know.

But in Hindu ceremonies, they do it as well, in certain Hindu ceremonies.

And so I think it is always about...

coming together.

In Chinese grieving rituals, there is this focus on ancestor worship.