Everyone’s dad dies. Mine died when I was only ten years old. When I look back on this story, I wonder just how much of what happened was normal and how much of it came about because of the people involved. There are parts that seem weird, but are maybe just run-of-the-mill experience.
This is you’re listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. In this episode, How I found out my father had died, I close out the first of those four decades, the ‘60s. The story is more about the surrounding events than my dad’s death itself. As I was just entering the age of reason, this event obviously not only marked me as a person, but became the catalyst for important changes in the paths my life would have otherwise taken.
Relatives’ deaths are not always easy stories to tell. Everyone deals with grief in their own way. My story is over 50 years old, yours may be more recent. If you have a story about a loved-one’s death and the circumstances surrounding it, feel free to share, death is an important aspect of the Everyman Biography Project, it is a main reason I began the project: with each death, our stories get diluted and finally lost. Sharing your story helps to keep humanity anchored in the people who otherwise fade in the shadows of the well-known.
Listen, like, subscribe and share. Next week we move into the ‘70s, get your bell-bottomed pants and polyester leisure suits out of that dusty old trunk. Things get stranger and the strange begins to become normal….
