Am mad, mad ๐ก
A dear friend lost her dad to cancer around three years back.
Very painful, traumatic time for the family!
He was a lively soul-of-the-party ; a committed lawyer, who worked till his last breath and chose to die at home, with respect...
His wife returned from the USA spending time with her son to overcome the trauma , just a month back.
Now almost three years later, she hears from the church they want to remove his skull and bones from the grave, as they don't have space in the cemetery where he was buried and are revamping the whole place!!!
...."We just finished at the graveyard. The skull and main bones will now be washed and given to us in a box...” was my friend's message this morning....
Paucity of space is a reality, even for the dead....
but ...
Isn't there a more sensitive way to handle this?
The church wants the family to keep the remains in the house as shifting to alternate cemetery will take time, a couple of years or more...
Imagine keeping the bones and skull of a dead person in your house... and the emotional state of a 70 old widow who lives alone and is just about looking at....moving on...!!!
I would expect basic respect to the departed soul and to the human beings whose world are being rattled.
How does one bring more sensitivity n dignity in this world, even for the departed??
