Relics

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This weekend on Tapestry Mary Hynes explores the ways we humans reach past the grave to reconnect with those who have left this world.  We'll hear about venerated relics of the saintly - the shriveled tongue of St. Anthony, the tooth of Buddha and the whisker of Mohammed, to modern innovations that allow us to send email messages after we die.  Mary talks to Peter Manseau, author of Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead.  She also speaks with David Eagleman, neuroscientist and creator of deathswitch.com, and visits with Hilda Panasiuk, a Mexican-Canadian woman who celebrates the Day of the Dead every year in her Toronto home.

Photograph: Catrinas, one of the most popular figures of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico.  Photograph by Tomascastelazo.