Funerals are hard. There is no way around it, no way to prepare for the specific weight of standing at a graveside watching someone you love being lowered into the ground while wearing shoes that are slightly too formal and trying to remember the words to a hymn you have not thought about since school.
The grief is real, the silence is heavy, and for the people left behind, that moment at the graveside tends to stay with them for a very long time. Most of us just endure it. One Irish father could not bear the thought of his family standing at his grave in that silence and decided that, with a little planning, he could do something about it.
