DEATH & MENTAL HEALTH

When Your Dead Mother Compels You To Fulfill Your Dreams

Lessons learned from an unfinished life

My mother’s bedroom when I arrived at her packed apartment, nine days after her death — photo by author, Susanville, CA, November 6th, 2021

I only discovered mother was a hoarder after she died. I went shopping and sleuthing in her apartment. Her living space was irony and contradiction.