Reflections: Loss of a grandparent

by Autumn Sage

A Grandmother's Comfort Are any of us, old or young, ever ready to handle the sudden absence of someone we love? It is unquestionably hard to lose someone when they have been there for us everyday, loving us 100 times m...read more

by Matthew Bonneville

My Grandfathers eyes were always warm. I also could feel a deep connection due to me inheriting the same shape and colour. His eyes changed during the day's leading to his death. That warmth I use to feel morphed into a lo...read more

by Holly Rogers

Unfortunately this is a loss I have had to deal with all too recently. When I was young, my family moved interstate, so I only really got to see my Grandparents once every couple of years after that, however they were the ...read more

by Jillian Fell

Death smiles at every man and all a man can do is smile back-Marcus Aurelius If there's one thing that humans are virtually powerless against, it is Death. However well we try to prolong the inevitable, dying is someth...read more

by Cassie Reese

November 23rd, 2002... 2:14pm. I sat there holding her hand, as she left my world. It was my thirteenth birthday, and I was coping with more than I had ever bargained for. All my life I had known she was sick... kidn...read more

by Jessica Bolyard

Granddaddy passed away when I was 4. He and Grandmother lived in Alabama, which was far enough away that my family and I didn't make the trip south from Virginia very often. We would sometimes meet in the middle for time i...read more

by Charlotte Clarke

It was just recently that I bought a hilarious book describing a proper Southerner's final farewell "Being Dead is No Excuse- The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral" written by Metcalfe and Hays....read more

by Lexy Lane

My grandfather died October 5,1993.. That was the worst day of my life..You see my grandfather,was my father. Let me explain: Grandpa raised me since I was about two..He did everything a father should for a child...read more

by Toni Kay Barker

When thinking about the day that everything turned upside down a lot of things came to mind. But most of all the main thing was of course the hospital room where you laid and took your last breath...<?xml:namespace pref...read more

by Christopher Buczkowski

The beauty of subjectivity... So often in this world, we are told that we need to "remain objective", and to "keep things in perspective", and that we need to do so in order to be "fair". While this is truly very usefu...read more

by Paula Mcbride

Dealing with the loss of a grandparent to any child no matter what age is a devastating occurence in life. I had always been close to my grandmother because I lived in the same town with her and got to see her nearly every...read more

by Goldberry

I was doing the dishes last summer, when the phone rang. It was my mom calling to say that my grandpa had died. I stood quietly, letting the water run down the drain, waiting for the sadness that was supposed to overcome...read more

by Ryan Burkhart

A loss of a grandparent can be very hard to overcome. If you are you to seeing them everyday or every week losing them later in life in your 20's or older does have an effect on you harder than if you were 2 or 3 years of...read more

by Jessicajo Barnett

When I was 19 years old I lost my first family member the first person in my life that I would have to see dead. I lived my life growing up with a tight family. Everyone lived different places but everyone tried there hard...read more

by Laura Fellows

The first grandparent to depart from my life just so happened to be the grandparent I was the most close to. It was last October. The first day of fall break we find out that my grandpa had a terminal illness. An am...read more

by L. Beall

I was twenty-four years old. My daughter was a month short of her first birthday. I had prior experience paying my own bills by myself. I was in my second marriage. I was finally grown and nothing could touch me and the il...read more

by Karima King

Funerals are serious; a loved one has passed away, and family members come together to grieve and comfort each other. Right? That's what I always thought. That is, until I went to a funeral. I supposed that I lived a ...read more

by Just luvin Jones

October 26th 2006 rocked me and my life will never be the same. I lost my grandmother. She was a vibrant, independent, strong woman. She was the only woman that I knew who could fuss you out and comfort you at the same tim...read more

by Geri Deskin

Eighteen months ago I lost the most wonderful man that I have ever known. My grandfather. He had done so much in his life that I wish that I could have done half of what he did. He grew up with four brothers and one sister...read more

by Shottzie

To lose a grandparent and trying to cope with it when they were the most influential people in your life is very hard. Trying to go through your mind and think that it is okay, that they are in a better place, is even har...read more