Reel 6673

PART 1: THE CHASM. Debut: Seattle TV journalist Greg Palmer hosts this four-part examination of how people around the world perceive death. The first episode compares American attitudes about "The Chasm" between life and death with those of other cultures. A survey of customs around the world includes Hindu funeral rites, "death art" in Ghana, Mexico's Night of the Dead festival, burial oddities in London and a cemetery in Taiwan that Palmer likens to a "death theme park." In the U.S., the hour observes a fourth-grade death-education class, an antiviolence crusade in Washington, D.C., pop-media images and Halloween as examples of our culture's effort to, as Palmer puts it, "repel it, ignore it, or at least modify it into acceptable forms." (1:00)

Funeral & grief rituals.

Differing perspective of life after death.

Out-of-body.

PART 1: THE CHASM. Debut: Seattle TV journalist Greg Palmer hosts this four-part examination of how people around the world perceive death. The first episode compares American attitudes about "The Chasm" between life and death with those of other cultures. A survey of customs around the world includes Hindu funeral rites, "death art" in Ghana, Mexico's Night of the Dead festival, burial oddities in London and a cemetery in Taiwan that Palmer likens to a "death theme park." In the U.S., the hour observes a fourth-grade death-education class, an antiviolence crusade in Washington, D.C., pop-media images and Halloween as examples of our culture's effort to, as Palmer puts it, "repel it, ignore it, or at least modify it into acceptable forms." (1:00)

Funeral & grief rituals.

Differing perspectives of life after death.

PART 1: THE CHASM. Debut: Seattle TV journalist Greg Palmer hosts this four-part examination of how people around the world perceive death. The first episode compares American attitudes about "The Chasm" between life and death with those of other cultures. A survey of customs around the world includes Hindu funeral rites, "death art" in Ghana, Mexico's Night of the Dead festival, burial oddities in London and a cemetery in Taiwan that Palmer likens to a "death theme park." In the U.S., the hour observes a fourth-grade death-education class, an antiviolence crusade in Washington, D.C., pop-media images and Halloween as examples of our culture's effort to, as Palmer puts it, "repel it, ignore it, or at least modify it into acceptable forms." (1:00). Mexican "Death" masks