I'm heartbroken. How can people be so cruel?

[NurseJackie]

155. It's maddening and heartbreaking.

the family would have nothing to do with a funeral.)

It's maddening and heartbreaking.

When I first became aware of the AIDS Quilt, I thought it was intended to be a way to tell the world "look how many are dying!" but if you look closer at the fact that each one is custom-made and personalized, it becomes much more than a political or activist statement... it's a memorial that gives us a glimpse of the person. It says "they were here" and "we loved them" and "they mattered to us"... and "they will not be erased or forgotten".

It was an inspired idea. Genius. It addressed so many objectives and so many layers with just a single concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMES_Project_AIDS_Memorial_Quilt#Display_location

In November 2019 the NAMES Project Foundation and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the quilt would relocate to San Francisco under the permanent care and stewardship of the National AIDS Memorial starting in 2020.[61] The Project's archives were gifted to the joint care with the American Folklife Center at the U.S. Library of Congress, allowing for greater public access.[62][63] This action returns the quilt to San Francisco, where the project began.