Column: On a tree-lined golf course, a bright red wind phone invites visitors to connect with their departed loved ones
Oliver Leopold at his high school graduation party. He graduated from Evanston Township High School a semester early to jump-start his dream of becoming a paramedic.
“I love the image of picking up this phone and your words are just carried off into the wind,” Mary Leopold, Oliver’s mom, told me.“Not only for my loss,” Leopold said, “but I know so many people who’ve lost children, tragically. The more I dive deep into grief, the more I read about grief and process my own grief, the more I realize we have very little in our society where grief is kind of embraced and encouraged.
They eventually found a spot for it in Wilmette, at a lot where people store boats, landscaping equipment and other non-driveway-appropriate machines. His firefighter friends taught him how to wash it and fill it with gas. The Leopolds donated the truck to the Illinois Fire Service Institute in Champaign after Oliver died.
His family’s grief is layered with unanswered questions. His official cause of death is inconclusive. His parents found him unresponsive in his bedroom and, at first, thought he died by suicide. But a medical examiner found no lethal substances in his body. An autopsy revealed undetected heart anomalies, but they don’t know, conclusively, if those caused or contributed to his death.“What happens when you don’t know the narrative of the death of your child?” Leopold said.
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