The many faces of death: The grief of others can ease our pain in these calamitous times
Like a lot of South Africans, I’ve been blessed with a huge extended family. While we have been great at bonding over milestones like birthdays — especially 21sts — we have had more practice at marking off deaths.
So used were we to bonding over loss that the feeling was indistinguishable to the one time my extended family met to introduce my sister and me to a long-unknown family member. From that period on, I can count several cousins snatched away by the violence that is, seemingly, a requisite ingredient of township life. For those of us who remain alive, dysfunction deadens us in unspeakable ways.
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