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Feb 5, 2016
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." --Marcus Tullius Cicero
Today We're His Family: Teen Volunteers Mourn Stranger's Death
"On the drive to Fairview Cemetery in the Boston neighborhood of Hyde Park, six seniors from Roxbury Latin boys' school sit in silent reflection. Mike Pojman, the school's assistant headmaster and senior adviser, says the trip is a massive contrast to the rest of their school day, and to their lives as a whole right now. Today the teens have volunteered to be pallbearers for a man who died alone in September, and for whom no next of kin was found. He's being buried in a grave with no tombstone, in a city cemetery." Read more about the touching way these high schoolers are stepping up to honor the life and death of strangers.
BE THE CHANGE
The next time you come across someone who is bereft of a caring community around them, try reaching out with a smile or a gesture of kindness. Do something to show them you care.
