For a number of years,
Halloween was a chore. I felt pressure
to buy decorations, dress up in a ghoulish costume, ooh and aah over
neighborhood children who came to the door being cute, and eat whatever candy
was left over.
In society’s push to make
money out of everything, including death, in our costumed depictions of violent
and gory ways to die, in our attempts to downplay the traumatic realities of
grief, we do disservice to our dead, especially if they died because of an act
of violence.
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