{"id":25391,"date":"2020-08-03T19:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T23:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=25391"},"modified":"2021-01-27T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:22:12","slug":"at-the-new-st-marys-mausoleum-columbarium-at-st-michaels-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2020\/08\/03\/at-the-new-st-marys-mausoleum-columbarium-at-st-michaels-cemetery.html","title":{"rendered":"At the New St. Mary’s Mausoleum\/Columbarium at St. Michael’s Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had planned to end up here, in an eye-level niche containing a sorabji.com coffee mug, a hand-written note from myself, and a wood box I built as a grade-schooler. That box contains pictures of, letters from, and favored ephemera of every woman I ever loved, going back to the 8th grade rejection letter from Susan.<\/p>\n

Turns out I don’t like the new mausoleum much, and would not be excited about my ashes moldering away in this space. It feels like a shopping center. St. Mary’s opened around the time the pandemic kicked in, and the cemetery was closed to the public for some time on account of that. Many of these interments could well be Covid-19<\/a> related, as at Calvary’s Covid Corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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