The day they buried my husband, they wouldn’t let me see his face. They said the accident had been too severe. They said I should remember him as he was, not as whatever remained in that coffin. People spoke gently, carefully, like they were protecting me from something worse than grief. But grief doesn’t need help to destroy you. I was eight months pregnant when I stood there watching them lower that closed casket into the ground. I remember thinking it felt wrong—unfinished, incomplete—but I didn’t have the strength to question it. By the next morning, my body gave up...
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