How death of a loved one can help you appreciate life 18 Articles

by Kathryn Johnson

I think anyone that has lost someone they love to cancer or illness is given the opportunity to appreciate life. Witnessing the dying process of my brother Chris Johnson, showed me how much I had taken for granted during ...read more

by Lynda Heather

William C. Sheppard passed away on March 15th, 2007. He was a wonderful father, husband, and friend. My father was diagnosed with emphysema in 1997. He went from being a four pack a day smoker to a non smoker in a matter o...read more

by Daniel Smith

How can life possibly get better after having your first child? In the summer of 2003, my wife and I had our first child, a son, Daniel, Jr. It was a long and painful (for both of us) birth; eighteen hours of labor. Whe...read more

by Catherine Graham

Everyone has a hero; an idol, or someone they admire. When I was sixteen, I believed that I was a hero to myself, but someone changed my beliefs in that forever. Maybe it was just my imagination, but, it seemed to me, wh...read more

by Charley Spaulding

"Forget Me Not" "What the Hell do you want, now?" was Paul's reaction, when he answered his doorbell to find his ex-wife, Lynn, standing there. It had become his typical response on the few occasions that she d...read more

by James Ferguson

Some of us were born to be angels. Some of us, before we have the chance to fully appreciate everything that was that individual, leave this Earth for a much greater place. I lost a friend of mine a little over a yea...read more

by Danielle B

The death of a loved one can be a hard thing to cope with and get thru. So many thoughts run thru your head after they are gone and so many emotions rear their ugly heads. Sometimes you can learn alot from the death of s...read more

by Shari Love

It's been a little over a year since my father passed. He died on January 9,2007...my 28th birthday. He had struggled with cancer for about 4 years and we didn't even find out until the last year. I was holding his hand wh...read more

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by Bud Hennekes

I will never forget,his body twitching, his eyes rolled back up into his head, his head bleeding profusely onto the golden beach sand. I will never be the same. March 29 2008, was the last day of our vacation at the beauti...read more

by Tammy Mac Callum

It has happened to each and every one of us at some point in our lives. Perhaps it was your mother or father, your brother or your sister, your husband or your wife, even your child or a very close friend. Whom e...read more

by Prophet Dent

Our church is small so when someone dies the impact is felt by all. As a ministry, overseer & close friend of the family, I was asked to give the encouraging words to the family. Their precious daughter had died she was o...read more

by Lynne Stewart

My cousin died this past weekend. He was 46. It was cancer. They gave him three months. He lasted about 12 days. His name is Phillip. When Phillip was 16 years old, he was riding a motorcycle on a road in another p...read more

by Stefani Hutchison

Memories That Last When my beloved Grandmother, Rosalie Raley, passed away following her husband of over fifty years, I remember thinking "Well, that's it, then. Grandmother and Papa are both gone. End of chapte...read more

by Mike Mcdonough

My family tree is not a particularly musical one. On my mother's entire side of the family dating back to 1900, there are only two people that learned to play the piano. One was my mother's aunt, and the other was whe...read more

by Annetherese McCorkell

When my Father died when I was fifteen, I became depressed because I felt that I wasn't there for him. After therapy years later, I realized that I was too young and immature to have realized that I should have been ...read more

by Dawn M. O'Neal

It was July 20th and I had just informed my fellow alumni classmates of the Class of 1985 that one of our own was taking a turn for the worse. A few weeks prior, I had learned that this fellow classmate had pancreatic can...read more

by Myrna Writewood

When you lose a loved one by death it makes you appreciate life more. Where you look at it through new eyes and see the quality of what life has to offer. You know that life is too short and you have to make the ...read more

by Tommy Jenkins

Jeannie, a minute of happiness you can get back. We must not live our lives in sorrow, to never experience pain is to never live. When we experience pain we grow inside, it helps us become physically and mentally stron...read more