As our community ages, we have had more deaths recently than we used to. I don’t think we as Pagans have quite gotten the hang to how to handle death and funerals. This is partly because we don't have professional clergy that are experienced and dispassionate. Our answers to specific questions - How would the deceased want her body disposed? What sort of service should be performed? - vary a great deal. And most important, what does death mean, which usually shapes the answers to the other questions. Let start talking about this issue.