The Funeral and I

Irene Lopez
6 min readAug 22, 2021

Reflections from my father’s death

Author’s own drawing/graphic

~My father passed away on the 1st of Aug 2021. I wanted to write about it and honor Him as best as I could. And so, this piece is about Him. ~

“It’s important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your

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