Funerals Are Not Death or Dying

Fune s belong to the living, since the dead do not etend. We try to weigh it, see it, know the person more wholly in their absence. It is the absence of the deceased that sets the mourners into motion as they talk and move and think about the dead person who now only exists between them. I have often been struck by the way that funerals bring together a fuller spectrl of people to one place than tends to happen in life. Work, colleagues weeping alongside childhood friends, family, a new neighbor passing an order of service along to an incognito ex lover. So three little ort of different sections jammed together. Tha, ho, beautiful