I HATE MONDAY: Funerals, Part II

There’s a lot to hate about funerals. That has recently been noted in this very space. It is widely said that death is “natural,” but nothing seems more unnatural than death. Broadly speaking, it is the saddest event humans experience. It’s sadder still that we face it so often until, finally, others experience it when we die. There is something …

i HATE funerals

Wherein we have another installment of I Hate Monday. Today the spotlight shines on those saddest of all occasions, funerals. This topic weighs heavily on my mind today: the friend I wrote about (in “Quitting: Reason No. 73,” below) died earlier today. My friend Kelly is at least now free from the pain and torture that years of cancer and …