All the words are said as they gather at the
grave site: “Let’s make sure to get together some time where death is not involved. Someone should not have to die to call us to
the same spot.” Everyone assures that
they will, that they will make the time to get together sometime outside where
a family member or friend has died.
And it is the way of this frenetic life that
they won’t. For many hundreds of years
now, this Western culture, and in particular, this American one, has not valued
relationships enough. It even nearly
stamped out the culture here that did.
And there is little that could make us poorer
as a result.
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