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Grief
Varies from moment to moment. Sometimes you'll be ok.... and then something will evoke a memory, and you're just a mess.
My best advice is just to check in on a person and let them know you're available if they need to talk, or just want someone to be around. Let the person know they have not lost the only person that cares about them.
posted by
Loribeth215
on May 27, 2008 at 12:09 AM
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There is no way...
to predict a reaction to something as profound as losing a person from one's life. Even if that person were to describe their experience, as one outside of the other's thought processes and feelings, it could likely not be completely conveyed. Even if one is glad another is free of suffering, it is still a separation, a reminder of corporeal mortality and the limited time we have on this planet.
posted by
bettybec
on January 23, 2008 at 3:22 PM
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Too many variables. Everyone reacts so differently. I don't say anything, just try to be available when needed. sam
posted by
sam444
on January 12, 2008 at 5:24 AM
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posted by
afzal50
on January 12, 2008 at 4:36 AM
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Straightforward, My younger brother and I went through a year of watching
our mother go through surgery, recover, digress, and finally die. We witnessed the small miracles and little heartbreaks she went through each and every day. We laughed with her when she triumphed and we shed tears with her when she failed. When she passed a part of us went with her. My younger brother and I cried then. Later, at the wake and the funeral we shed no tears. The two of us were considered as cold and self-centered. Our father knew the truth. To my brother and I that's the only thing that really mattered.
Peace IR
posted by
I-R-William
on January 12, 2008 at 3:47 AM
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I think I experience that at times. I am overwhelmed by something and I'm oblivious to my surroundings
posted by
leaderspeaker
on January 12, 2008 at 3:30 AM
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