Death and mourning

Mourning is a personal experience since no two persons have the same memories of the deceased.

This has been a year of death and farewells. This has been a season of mourning. A period of counting the rising mortality statistics. The television tells me the latest numbers and Facebook gives me pictures of those that have been lost forever amongst those whom I had known growing up in my village. The social media experience is still virtual, but its effect is nonetheless immediate without the organic surroundings. My response to death announcements on Facebook has become limited to a ‘like’ or a ‘RIP’, or just silence.