Death After Death – Chicago Tribune

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When COVID-19 first hit Chicago in 2020, worker Elias Reno texted his sister and a good friend on the bus on his way home from work at a grocery store.

“If something happens to me, I want things to go here, that’s what I want to do,” Reno, who uses he/him pronouns, remembers telling them.

A 44-year-old transgender man from Edgewater made his will with the cautious hope that when he dies, his body will be treated with dignity.

“I think by the time I die, there will be a lot of people who will be doing work with death, who will have experience with trans bodies, or who will be trans people themselves, or who will be non-binary people themselves,” he said.

For trans people like Reno, as well as non-binary people, life comes with its own challenges. But so is death.

Read the story in its entirety by Adriana Perez.

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