ABSTRACT
The author uses a comic book to depict their family history surrounding death and grieving. She examined her family’s relationship with death through the lens of her great-grandmother’s funeral, which she attended when she was four years old. The bulk of her narrative is spent comparing and contrasting her approach to death and grieving as a young child to her approach as a young adult; in particular, as her approach relates to her parents and other loved ones. The author focuses on the funeral, because it provides an interesting look at the ways imaginative play can influence the way both children and adults manage both their personal grief and one another’s grief after the loss of a loved one.
