Abstract
The author auto‐ethnographically reflects on the emotional struggle with her father's death. The haunting memory of their last conversation empowers her during the lengthy mourning process. She ‘reconstructs the event so that it can be integrated into her life story’ [J. H. Harvey (1996) Embracing Their Memory: Loss and Social Psychology of Storytelling, Allyn & Bacon, MA, p. 191]. Memories of their relationship resurface as the emotional landscape involves love, strength, denial, compassion, withdrawal and helplessness. The reflection explores the educative process of writing from the heart. It also shares multicultural funeral rites and how they differ from traditional North American funerals. At a deeper level, writing the auto‐ethnography becomes cathartic as it helps ‘break ties between the bereaved and the dead to achieve a good adjustment’ (Ibid., p. 138). It also explores theory, practice, and innovation that embed voices in health and education in order to enlighten practice. In the end, reflecting on the memory of her father's last words becomes a transformative educational process as it provides a heightened awareness about grief, loss, bereavement and the importance of the father–daughter relationship.
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