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Spencer Matthews

Happy Place

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The Importance of a Puja Ceremony

In Buddhist culture, a soul can't pass to the afterlife until such a time that they've been cremated. I learned this in the monastery on my way to the mountain and thought to myself, it was another reason for wanting to recover a Nepali climber instead of a Western climber because our culture around death is very different. And I knew that this family wouldn't have been able to like us, mourn and process his death properly because he's stuck on the mountain in his body,. So I thought that it would be a nice thing for them to be able to do that. With us doing our, we speak to Mike at the end, albeit just to, we've erected

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