How to approach a graveside casket Branch Sooner or later, we all have loved ones to pass away. It is certainly an emotionally painful experience. The hardest moment of it all, however, has to be when we approach the graveside casket, for, in those moments, the sense of finality becomes reality. My Dad died February 15, 1995. Two years after, I was still grieving his death. I decided to write him a letter, which I re-submit in this article. I wrote: DEAR DAD, Though I know that time is no longer a concern to you, February marks two years since we left your body in that casket at the gravesid...