No feelings. No reaction. Just breathe.
1 min readMar 5, 2016
Mom died.
She left us each a third of her fortune.
She wanted to be buried near her parents. She wanted a funeral. No one will come.
What is this idea of honoring the dead by granting their final wishes. That’s only if it’s reasonable, right? Why have a funeral for someone with no friends? Her high school girlfriends have all died. Her cousins are aged and struggling, day to day.
What do I owe someone whose kindness was shadowed by her anger and fear. She was kind, at times. And she could be funny. She held onto what she could until she couldn’t. Her teeth, her house, her shoes. Gone.
Who is served by a funeral for a woman who has retreated to her fears for so long?
