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"Who knows? On All Saints Day, half of the French still go to the cemetery.

2022-10-31T18:59:25.259Z


FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - While Catholics celebrate All Saints' Day on November 1 and honor their dead the next day, the philosopher Damien Le Guay* underlines how, each year, on this date, a massive part of our fellow citizens remain faithful to the traditional visit to the graveyard,...


*President of the National Funeral Ethics Committee, member of the National Council for Funeral Operations, Emeritus Member of the Scientific Council of the French Society for Support and Palliative Care (Sfap), Damien Le Guay is a lecturer at HEC.

He also teaches at Ircom in Angers as well as in the regional ethical spaces of Île-de-France and Picardie.

The author has published, in particular, "La Mort en ashes" (Éditions du Cerf, 2012), "Le Fin Mot de la vie" (Éditions du Cerf, 2014) and "Les Morts de notre vie" (Albin Michel, 2015).

Latest work published: “When euthanasia will be there…” (Salvator, January 2022).

During the All Saints holidays, the French flock to the cemetery.

The numbers prove it.

Half of them pay a visit to their deceased loved ones.

This is a major social phenomenon, always more or less ignored.

Most media don't try to figure it out.

For them, cemeteries and everything related to them do not present…

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Source: lefigaro

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