Memory visible: In the graveyard, the final letting go is writ

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Memory visible: In the graveyard, the final letting go is writ
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We have kept our son's ashes close, storing how to mark his passing in the same place as his urn – on a shelf, waiting for night’s descent to become merely shadow, to become the remains of that day. But now we are ready, writes Warwick McFadyen | OPINION

All you can really ask is for a little more time. But graveyards are the great leveller. Time rubs against the skin of everyone.

This, then, is the utter last stop, where ash becomes earth, the final accounting of a life, the letting go. His ashes will go beneath the plaque – the heart, the smile, the laughter, the boy entire of love – to earth.The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own.

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