Goodbye letters to Kendra Frazer, who died at Burning Man, to journey to playa

Friends of Kendra Frazer will write letters to burn on the final night time of this yr’s Burning Man.

Frazer, 39, died the primary day of the annual pageant within the Black Rock Desert, 100 miles east of Reno, in 2024. The pageant runs this yr from Aug. 24 by means of Sept. 1.

The letters for Frazer, who had a loud chortle, beloved dinosaurs and spent months creating costumes for Burning Man, are goodbyes.

It took months for the reason for demise to be decided as rumors swirled about medication or foul play, nevertheless it was decided Frazer died of an bronchial asthma assault in her sleep, her longtime associate, Sean Lupher, instructed the Reno Gazette Journal.

The Washoe County Medical Examiner confirmed the trigger.

Letters to burn at Burning Man’s Temple

Lupher will gather the letters for Frazer on what would have been her 40^th birthday, Aug. 21. They will likely be put in a heart-shaped wood field stained purple with beet juice, he stated.

Lupher hopes it convey those that knew Frazer closure. It’s one thing he hopes to seek out for himself sometime.

The couple, who labored at a tech firm in Seattle, had deliberate for the 2024 Burning Man to be their final as they settled all the way down to attempt new issues.

They had been to Burning Man many occasions since assembly in 2011, and had volunteered as Rangers, a bunch that works to ensure folks keep protected on the pageant. In 2013, the couple hosted a theme camp, creating an impediment course on the playa.

Lupher left Burning Man simply hours after Frazer was discovered lifeless within the couple’s tent final yr. He received’t return this yr and isn’t certain he’ll ever return.

“It just doesn’t feel right,” he said.

Friends will take the wooden heart filled with letters to Buring Man. There, the box will burn at the temple on the festival’s last night. 

Lupher holds out hope that those who loved Frazer will feel her presence on the Black Rock this year.

Lupher wished those going to Burning Man this year well on social media, writing, “For those of you going, if you see Kendra, tell her I love and miss her so very much.”