Diversity in Death: Recent Episodes
RNZ
Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets members of the Muslim communities across the North Island to explore how the Islamic faith deals with rituals around death and burial.
Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets members of the Sikh community in Auckland to find out how their faith deals with rituals around death.
From Auckland to Wellington, Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets members of the Hindu communities to focus on diversity in death. She speaks to a man with decades of experience in funeral rites at the Hindu Temple in Kilbirnie and explores how this faith from India deals with the tricky issue of whether open air cremations, one of their common rituals, can happen here in New Zealand.
Lynda Chanwai-Earle travels across the North Island in search of how the the Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and Muslim communities in New Zealand deal with death.