The Problem With Funerals

FormerlyKnownAs
4 min readApr 4, 2022

Is That They Remind You of all the Others you’ve been to.

A young, white woman with medium-length brown hair in a middle parting has both hands covering her face, with her fingers spread out. She is wearing a beige fleece jacket with large orange cuffs. She looks upset and like she is hiding.
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Less than 4 weeks ago, my aunt was admitted to the hospital with sudden onset undiagnosed symptoms. Her funeral was this week. She had a form of cancer the doctors called ``very rare’’. She didn’t live long enough to be told exactly what it was. Her immediate family is certain no one actually knew.

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