Dead should be honored, not harassed
In Honor of Joshua Wadds (March 11, 1988 – June 8, 2025) On Saturday, our family and community gathered in love to celebrate the life of Joshua Wadds.
We came together as he wished—planting trees, sharing stories, and honoring his soul with reverence, beauty, and peace.
This was not just a memorial.
It was a sacred moment. A funeral. A celebration of life. A ceremony of goodbye.
Across cultures and centuries, humanity has paused for such moments— to mark the passing of life with silence, with ritual and with honor.
But instead of peace, we were met with disruption.
A neighbor—fully aware of what we were doing— chose that hour to bring in heavy machinery, to dump materials, to mow and stir up clouds of dust so thick that many had to leave.
He was asked repeatedly to stop. He refused.
This wasn’t random. It was deliberate.
And to us, it felt like a violation—not just of space, but of something holy.
To interrupt a funeral is to dishonor the living and the dead.
It wounds more than hearts. It wounds something sacred in the fabric of community and the universe itself.
We still planted those trees. We still honored Joshua.
But we also speak now. Because grief should never be bulldozed.
Reverence should never be drowned out by rage.
And love should never be silenced.
Elizabeth Jones Pilot Point
