Welcome back to Last Words: Death Perception - Catholic Concepts on Mortality. 

We return to Father Dusty and uncover more of the concepts that the Catholic Church embraces in regard to death and life. 

In this episode Father Dusty explains: 

• ​Developing faith throughout lived experiences. 
• ​How the Catholic church is meant to walk alongside where the world is. 
• ​Funeral processions within the Catholic Church. 
• ​Mental preparation for a funeral mass. 
• ​Offering a soul back to God. 
• ​What it means to be present to the moment of transition. 
• ​The church ruling changed on cremation in 1963. 
• ​Defining “Memento Mori” 
• ​The importance of conversations surrounding death. 
• ​Staying with someone leading up till their last breath. 
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In the end, Father Dusty walks us through his personal fear of death and the experiences that have shaped his own view on mortality. 

Including the loss of a close friend and what it means to work and walk through it. 

This is Last Words: Death Perception 

This is Father Dusty.