Mail Online reports:

The youngster died in a car crash in New York state last week while travelling with his grandfather.

Mourners at his funeral in Buffalo, New York, were unaware that the nuptials of his parents was going to take place.

Tears turned to smiles as the pastor overseeing the funeral announced he would marry the couple.

‘Asa always wanted us to get married,’ said Mrs Ghirmatzion after the ceremony.

‘He’d say, “When are you guys going to get married? How come you’re not getting married?’ And we’d say, ‘We were waiting for you to be part of it.’

The sad thing this couple has done is to turn their marriage into death and their future divorce into life. The marriage, now a tomb, will suffocate them. Do not do things for the dead. Bury the dead, honor the dead, and leave the dead to the dead.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

10 replies on “The Dead Marriage”

  2. You’re an asshole, Charles.

    Don’t judge how other people respond to the tragedy of losing a loved one.

  3. I’m sure your prescriptive, rattle-trap guidance will be taken to heart by that grieving couple.

    I’m no Christian and can’t speak to how this goes down in some purported heaven, but “judge not lest ye be judged” works pretty well on earth, too.

  4. You achieve something to honor the dead, the way the USA honored a fallen president by completing his vision of a human on the moon.

    I kinda have to agree with Mr. Mudede here. Making a commitment for the dead, instead of an achievement, just cheapens their memory if and when you fail.

  5. As someone from Buffalo (with the sense to leave when I was 18), can I say ughhh– I think it’s great they fulfilled their child’s wish, but wish they chose another day to do so– now wedding anniversary = funeral anniversary– you really want that??

  7. I thought their ‘gesture’ was rather silly and pointless too. Why didn’t you get married before the kid was born? Or any time in the past 7 years? Their ‘gesture’ won’t benefit their child at all. A dead child doesn’t need a two parent or even one parent household.

  8. While I may not agree with the couple’s decision to marry on THAT day, it’s amazing how Charles can take any story and convolute some pseudo-intellectual esoteric philosophy that has nothing at all to do with the original story. Amazingly awful, that is. Death can never be created because it cannot be destroyed. Divorce is not life, it is a legal process.

  10. Boy, you’re snarky, Charles. And your lack of life experience and deep-rooted cynicism shows. Who cares if a grieving couple honors the memory of their son by marrying? What’s wrong, really, with them sychronizing their wedding anniversary with the date they buried their son? Geez!

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