Readers blog: The Irish wake is not morbid. It is understanding and compassion personified

Aoife O’Rourke is uncomfortable around death and belives the tradition of the Irish Wake is morbid.  (Irish Examiner readers blogs – May 2nd 2017) .

Aoife may be surprised to learn that at age 20 I wasn’t exactly thrilled to be invited to wakes either. I also yawned and fidgeted my way through weddings – why all the fuss, money and crowds just to say ‘I do, he does’?

But she makes a classic mistake of projection – of ascribing her motives and feelings to others and thereby describing the tradition of the Wake as ‘morbid’ whereas in fact she is describing her own relationship with death.