Light a candle in remembrance today. For those who died. For all those who lost family, friends and loved ones as a result of Hurricane Maria.
If you do not have a specific name to remember — light a candle in memory of them all.
You can select a name from the Hurricane death database and post names, and your condolences to the family on social media — or here in comments.
Looking through the database — reading the names of those who died and why strips away the anonymity of just numbers.
Sending love and tears to Eva’s family:
Date of death:
2017-10-02
19 years old
Place of death: Arecibo
Official cause of death: Septicemia
What happened: She needed mechanical ventilation. After the blackout, her lungs collapsed.
We may never know all the names. We will never have an exact death toll — many people on the island say it is much higher.
What we know is that people mourn. What we know is that there will always be an empty chair at the table. Many people on the island think that we don’t care.
We can show we can.
Got up this morning and saw that Bobby had posted this to twitter.
Pa’lante Puerto Rico