Register a Death

I've decided to try to stop judging the extent to which things are good or bad. Many things just "are". There are lists but they're incomplete. I'm cultivating a "numb" attitude, just so I can understand and get by. There's an information pool that may deepen or just drain away. It's a slowly evolving learning process. Apropos next to nothing.When you register a death, you make an online appointment. You pay a small fee with a card and get an order number. At the allotted time, a person with a kindly voice and pleasant manner asks you a number of questions.You’re already ready with the answers because the first email told you what to expect. So you answer them. Your answers are now in the system. You get another order number. This number allows you to cancel various things that the deceased may have had: pensions, passports, benefits and so on. Their life now sits in some digital archive but in what I imagine to be, a dead file.You look at a faded and creased photo of their younger…

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