THE WIND PHONE

Why Go to a Memorial Service?

When you didn’t really know the person

Alison Acheson
The Wind Phone
Published in
5 min readApr 9, 2024

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group of musicians playing music with water nearby
Photo by Filip Mishevski on Unsplash

Recently, I went to the memorial service of someone I never really met.

I saw and heard him decades ago, on stage playing jazz saxophone. But really, I went because I’ve known his sister for many years now and because she lost her only close sibling.

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Alison Acheson
The Wind Phone

My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.