| How does the death of a loved one affect you? | | | | get they are always there. Your heart fills with |
| Gone but never forgotten, when someone close | | | | love when you think of them. You have the |
| to you dies it's hard at the time to except it. Most | | | | memories to pass on to your children and your |
| of us wonder why not us instead? Why so | | | | grandchildren; stories that are funny make you |
| young? Why so sudden? We have so many | | | | laugh when you tell them. In a way your loved |
| questions running through our minds at the time | | | | ones are still alive with you always. You cherish |
| we just don't understand it. After the shock for | | | | the time you had with them. As long as you |
| them dieing, then comes anger at who ever took | | | | remember them through stories they are never |
| them from us. I was eight years old when my | | | | truly gone. They are always close by, with a smile |
| mother died in 1967. I remember being really sad | | | | and a hug. Death touches everyone in life from |
| then mad. It was the first time death had ever | | | | the very young to the very old. How we handle it |
| touched my life and I really didn't understand it. | | | | is what is important to our lives and the lives of |
| It took a while for the pain of her not being there | | | | those around us. |
| to ease. My grandparents stepped in and helped | | | | It takes time to get pass the pain of losing |
| my dad raise me; they lived next door to us. | | | | someone close to you. The longer the time the |
| Three years later my grandfather died. I had a | | | | easier it is to remember without much pain. There |
| little more understanding but was still angry. Then | | | | will come a time when you can pull out the old |
| when a month before my 14th birthday my dad | | | | pictures and photo albums. Walking down memory |
| died. At that time having gone through the two | | | | lane with someone you love that has passed on |
| prior deaths of my mom and grandfather I had a | | | | will be something you will be able to do. You will |
| very good understanding of death. My | | | | remember their faces, pictures when they were |
| grandmother stepped in to raise my smaller | | | | taken and what you were doing at the time. No |
| brother and I. You never forget them in your | | | | one wants to face the death of a loved one, but |
| memories and dreams, but as time goes by it | | | | it's a fact of life. If we live then one day we will |
| makes living easier. | | | | die. The ones close to us will have the memories |
| The memories of your loved ones stay with you | | | | of us. What will your family and friends remember |
| where ever you go in life. No matter how old you | | | | when they think of you? |