MAKING SENSE OF DEATH

We can no longer celebrate lives through large funerals and wakes, but could technology offer a way to help us negotiate our grief?

- ALEKS KROTOSKI

When my Dad died at the very beginning of 2016, it started a concentrated time of many losses. It was an artefact of age – in the following three years, I lost all of those who were left in his generation and above. By the end of 2019, after a few clear months without a visit to a funeral home, I stopped anticipating the news of a loved one facing the philosophical full stop, and relaxed. I had achieved the final stage of grief. I started to make sense of it.