Grief has been a pretty central theme in my life, but not the death of loved ones. Those have stayed more or less peripheral. It’s a strange thing and I don’t much look forward to it, but grief and I have our familiar rhythms.
When I die I want a natural burial! Explored different approaches to death a few years back, and was captivated by natural burial grounds and aghast at the energy and money poured into conventional funerals, burials, and especially cremation. Not bashing those who make that choice, but I wanna do something different.
I’m looking into natural burial too! Only it’s a company that turns your body to compost. Even if that’s not possible, I don’t want to be embalmed, just wrapped in muslin and buried in a pine box.
I’m learning to grieve losses of all kinds, even the ones not tied to death. That emotion builds up nonetheless and needs somewhere to go.
This is beautiful.
Thanks for reading, MaKenna! 😊
Grief has been a pretty central theme in my life, but not the death of loved ones. Those have stayed more or less peripheral. It’s a strange thing and I don’t much look forward to it, but grief and I have our familiar rhythms.
When I die I want a natural burial! Explored different approaches to death a few years back, and was captivated by natural burial grounds and aghast at the energy and money poured into conventional funerals, burials, and especially cremation. Not bashing those who make that choice, but I wanna do something different.
I’m looking into natural burial too! Only it’s a company that turns your body to compost. Even if that’s not possible, I don’t want to be embalmed, just wrapped in muslin and buried in a pine box.
I’m learning to grieve losses of all kinds, even the ones not tied to death. That emotion builds up nonetheless and needs somewhere to go.