Halloween and Holy Days

For a number of years, Halloween was a chore. I felt pressure to buy decorations, dress up in a ghoulish costume, ooh and aah over neighborhood children who came to the door being cute, and eat whatever candy was left over.

In society’s push to make money out of everything, including death, in our costumed depictions of violent and gory ways to die, in our attempts to downplay the traumatic realities of grief, we do disservice to our dead, especially if they died because of an act of violence.

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