We’re Not Taught What to Do After They Die

Most of us grow up learning how to love people. Very few of us are taught what to do after they die. Many of you know my family lost my cousin Heather to suicide. Every year on her birthday, I light a candle and hold a conversation with her. Last year, she would have turned 50, and the loss felt much more raw and painful. I thought about all the times we joked when we were younger; how we’d grow…