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4 Lessons From the Death Year

In a time of mass unwitnessed death, I hang out in cemeteries. It’s more comforting than you’d think.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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10 min readOct 6, 2021

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A cemetery. It’s not that spooky, really.
Pictured: My social life. Photo by Sandra Seitamaa on Unsplash

I’ve been sitting out in cemeteries lately. It’s not an affectation. I knew someone, once, who was followed by Death; their partner died, and then one of their parents, and then another parent not long…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Human Parts

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.