Of the three grandparents that have passed away, I have only attended one of their funerals. In-person, at least. My maternal grandfather passed away in 2021 at the height of the COVID pandemic. In a culture where funerals must happen immediately, a two-week quarantine period stopped any chance of us going. Instead, we sat in our kitchen, dressed in black, saying farewell to our granddad through the spotlighted speaker window of Zoom. Four years later, my grandmother passed a