Funerals can be busy.
People call.
Cook.
Travel.
Choose clothes.
Arrange programmes.
Find chairs.
Receive visitors.
Then everybody goes home.
And sometimes that is when grief becomes strangely quiet.
The person who was surrounded for a week may suddenly be alone with the empty chair, the clothes, the phone number and the ordinary routines that still expect to happen.
Support after a death should not expire when the funeral programme ends.
Sometimes the useful call is the one three Tuesdays later:
“Mi know everybody gone back to dem life. How yuh doing today?”