Coping after murder, suicide, accident and death of a loved one

by Clayton Mcewen

Suicide has always seemed absurd to me, when I was growing up a friend of mine had lost his mother to suicide. I remember thinking how selfish and confusing how could one who is loved or does love bring themselves to this ...read more

by Donald Courtney

My sisters Life and Death: I've been meditating for hours about writing on this subject. Even if I do, will I be able to publish it. The pain will always be with me if I ponder over the circumstances that this story wil...read more

by Justine Ho

At one time or another if most are honest, the question of whether your own existence matters to anyone else in the world spins around in our head, for some because of addiction for others life never seems to give them a b...read more

by Paula Fish

As of June 07 2007 it has been 23 years since my sister was killed. I was pregnant with my twins and she was expecting her first child. My sister was 19 at the time. I was at home when I got the call, at first I didn't bel...read more

by Errant

Food tasted like ashes. Drink tasted like blood. I still can't have the full enjoyment of life. I was twelve when I first met Caine. That was her last name. We always went by last name. She was thirteen at the time...read more

by Rush Mckenzie

When I was fifteen, I lost my girlfriend to murder. It has been the most debilitating event of my life. It is an event that I have not "gotten over." It haunts me every day and every night. I still believe that I see her i...read more

by Susan Goebel

How do we cope when a loved one takes their own life? we ask a lot of questions like why? How could they do this? why didn't i see that something was wrong? we go through a lot of emotions. first is shock, then comes gri...read more

by Londie Harrisson

Everyone has experienced some form of grief to some degree or other, and I am no different. I chose to tackle the "Creative" assignment because there has been one major loss in my life that has profoundly impacted the way...read more

by Zeni

Murder, my mother was murdered by her only son my half brother. This he plotted out I feel some seven years ago, on Christmas Eve. It was in cold blood. My mother died in my arms, in her apartment, at least five minutes be...read more

by Donna Dutchess

YES MOM, THERE ARE BUNNY RABBITS IN HEAVEN By Donna Dutchess We were up at our hunting camp for the weekend. 120 miles from home, in an old potato farmhouse that was 75 years old with 7 bedrooms, we brought up all our ...read more

by Jim Moss

When Murder Gets Personal On January 11, 2003 Michael R. Mitchell who everyone knew as "Mitch" was shot several times and found deceased at 21:30 in his front yard at 2815 Hawthorne Avenue in the Barton Heights neighbo...read more

by Donni Hakanson

Nothing can happen out of order or by chance. Yet the Grim Reaper strikes his scythe in ways seemingly haphazard, cutting down the young and old, justly and unjustly. The living are left to cope with only memories of the d...read more

by Kimberly Martin

Coping after a death of a loved one is hard to do. It's even harder if you blame yourself. The thing is , is that most of us who experience a tragedy like death of a love one, we often search until we find a way it could h...read more