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After her father’s sudden death, a middle-aged woman must navigate the absurdities of funeral arrangements while coming to terms with grief itself.

A young woman is angered from beyond the grave when her family's greed denies her a proper burial, resulting in her becoming a vengeful spirit rather than moving on to the next stage of the afterlife.

When a widowed aunt who is rumored to have an inheritance of half a million dollars in the 1980s, the local undertaker attempts to sell her niece and nephew a casket and plan her funeral service while also dealing with his personal love life.

During WWII, a lieutenant's death prompts his father to plan an unnecessarily theatric funeral. The late lieutenant's brother is disgusted, knowing the dead man would have hated such an empty gesture.

A seventy-something-year-old woman dutifully visits her husband's grave only to realize that she contributed to the unhappiness of her marriage by letting her husband die lonely and unwanted.

A father tells a story about his deceased wife and the wild traditions they used to have involving alcohol as well as the disapproval his mother-in-law had about their relationship.

In rural 1950s Pennsylvania, a man processes his wife's death alongside his tight-knit family. As he gathers courage to tend his wife's grave, he must rely on his siblings more than ever before.

When a young girl in a contemporary northwestern American town dies, one of her neighbors and former friends rethinks her relationship with death.

A deceased man’s friends and coworkers try to come up with the best way to mourn him and comfort his widow, even though it seems like she doesn’t need it.

A woman comes home dreading her grandmother's funeral, but she finds that moments of shared sorrow allow families to come together and celebrate life.