Lonely Funeral: Poets at the Gravesides of the Forgotten-Quality Guarantee

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Every year, people living in our towns and cities – the homeless, suicides, old people living alone – are found dead. Their funerals are held without relatives or friends. In Amsterdam in 2002, F Starik established a network of poets who would write a personal poem for the deceased and read it at their funeral as an affirmation of their existence.