Synopsis
A visit to a Humanist funeral triggers debate about what happens after we die.
- Programme: A Question of Faith
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Religious Education | Humanism | Life and death | Beliefs about death and the afterlife
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