A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

by Keigo Higashino

the whole point of funerals was to keep the family so busy they wouldn’t have the time to grieve.

“It’s not the job of people at the bottom to worry about the opinions of people at the top.

People rediscover their real feelings when death is coming up on them. They jettison their pride and stubbornness and finally open up to their true hopes and desires. The living have a duty to listen to what they say then, to their final message.