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Posts Tagged ‘cremation’

Higher costs, plus anguish of sudden loss, push some black families to abandon traditional burial rituals

By Tasion Kwamilele | December 1, 2011 | 1

Although tradition in some Oakland and other Bay Area African American communities calls for honoring the dead with burial funerals, cremation is gaining popularity as a simpler, less expensive alternative in financial hard times.

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