Death Came Knocking

My dad said, “come in.”

My dad’s grave, a mix of life and death. Image credit: author.

Conversation topic: death

For about two years now, the topic of death has been incredibly present in my life. While death itself is nowhere near unique, I had a special opportunity surrounding the death of my father (May 2020).

After a three-year battle with cancer, he called it quits. Nine months before his death, when…