A funeral every second month, really? However, this week I was at a funeral, again. The deceased was an old woman I never met in my life
Sometimes I feel I need to stand on a mountain and shout apologies to the world, to the people I have laughed at and thought foolish, because time often proves me wrong. Sometimes I am the one who is foolish and laughable.
“How many aunts does she even have?” we chuckled at the office. “They” were always going to funerals, taking time off, any excuse. They all had funeral plans paid each month before anything else, and marquees were pitched on the streets of Soweto for every sending off.It seemed excessive, the business of dying; it seemed insane.
That’s how we do things in Ireland: we turn up for funerals of relatives of friends. We turn up for funerals of strangers. At the wake the previous night, neighbours had queued down the street. After the burial, the entire congregation was invited to a gathering at a hotel.
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