This Is Us

In Conclusion

How we talk to the dead

Wee Kirk o’ the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, April 19, 2020. Photo courtesy of the author.

I went to the cemetery the other day, not for any particular reason other than we are still allowed to go to cemeteries, at least for now. Ordinary funeral gatherings are not permitted at this moment here in Los Angeles, a city of four million people that spreads out over 469 square miles. I could not find the number of deaths due to Covid-19 within city…