“IT IS IMPORTANT,” he wrote, “TO MARK THAT TIME OR MOMENT OF DEATH. IT’S HEALTHY TO MAKE THE PRIVATE PUBLIC.” But, he continues, the spaces we provide for mourning and memorialization, the chapel and the home, are unnecessarily divisive and atomizing. They separate us from each other in our time of need. “ONE SIMPLE STEP,” he writes, “CAN BRING IT OUT INTO A MORE PUBLIC SPACE. DON’T GIVE ME A MEMORIAL IF I DIE. GIVE ME A DEMONSTRATION.”23
