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“The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my kokum's lying here dead...She wrote up a report and closed my kokum's eyes, then walked out of the room and summoned a doctor. In the room beside us, another nurse was still laughing. Sometimes I don't like how life goes on. And sometimes I don't think it should.”

Death Grief Sadness Mourning Hospitals Nurses

Book:Jonny Appleseed

Source: Jonny Appleseed

“Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation.”

Grief Indigenous Literature Joshua Whitehead Making Love With The Land

Book:Making Love with the Land: Essays

Source: Making Love with the Land: Essays

“Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting.”

Grief Mourning Indigenous Literature Joshua Whitehead Making Love With The Land

Book:Making Love with the Land: Essays

Source: Making Love with the Land: Essays

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