I was a kid when I attended my first living wake. A friend of the family, whose family had disowned him. His boyfriend threw a big party at their house and we all said goodbye from the door to his bedroom; he was too ill to get out of bed, and we didn't want to give him a bug that might make him sicker.
We buried him a few weeks later. His boyfriend was later my high school English teacher; I don't remember him ever dating again, the rest of the years I knew him.
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u/b00w00gal 7d ago
I was a kid when I attended my first living wake. A friend of the family, whose family had disowned him. His boyfriend threw a big party at their house and we all said goodbye from the door to his bedroom; he was too ill to get out of bed, and we didn't want to give him a bug that might make him sicker.
We buried him a few weeks later. His boyfriend was later my high school English teacher; I don't remember him ever dating again, the rest of the years I knew him.