Tag: Funeral

You might think it’s about the money, but something cultural is also happening here, and the trend is not good or healthy. Courtesy of gettyimages.com My mother’s second husband died after her, but his family decided there would be no funeral, which was a shame. It took a ...

Since marrying a black man, I’ve developed a habit of noticing the racial makeup of people in any given space. This practice falls outside the norms of whiteness that I learned, and I feel pressure to conform to these norms when I’m with other white people. Yet here I am at a funeral ...

I walked into the hospital room a couple of steps behind my dad who swung back the curtain that’s supposed to provide a modicum of privacy. There lay a yellow man shaking and moaning. Tubes jammed up his nose and smaller intravenous lines running along what used to be strong arms. Eyes mostly ...