Standing in the cemetery grounds, the sun beating down as mourners filed out of the crematorium, I felt a surge of happiness
‘Never thought we’d get more than a handful to attend,’ Martin, the celebrant exclaimed.
‘The power of community,’ I smiled.
It was September 2018, and we were holding a funeral for a middle-aged woman whose body had washed up on a nearby beach the previous year.
DNA, fingerprints and dental records had been unable to identify her.
Despite a painstaking search,
