Via Howard Friedman , a report that the high court of South Korea has banned columbariums even in churches when those columbariums—columbaria?—are near schools.
The problem is that any reminder of death is “likely to have a negative emotional impact on students.” Negative how? Can I suggest that the court read a little more deeply into what death is for ?
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