Reflections: Losing a loved one

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by Lirpa Yadsloof

This story is a true story. Some things have been omitted or changed to protect confidentiality. I realize this is in the category of losing a loved one, and I think it's appropriate. I lost my dad in 2000 to a sudd...read more

by Melissa Sparks

A child, not just any child, my child. Justin,a young boy of eight plagued by the awful disease known as cancer. It's name, Medulloblatoma. A form of brain cancer in the madulla. How could this happen, I thought. He wa...read more

by Jason Forbis

Where is Hell? I have been asking myself questions lately. After she passed away; died and left me, I have been asking myself all the cliche' questions that are common. How can I go on? Why did this have to happen to he...read more

by Thomas D'Errico

It's been almost a month that my Gladys is gone. I visit her grave now and then in hopes that it will make me feel closer to her, but as I stand there looking down at the fresh plot of dirt I can't believe that I'm so clos...read more

by Sharon Chavarry

Here I sit trying to answer the biggest clich I have been faced with in 34 years on this planet: How do I live without the woman that made me crazy? Losing my mother less than 6 months ago was devastating to say the lea...read more

by Amber Page

My younger sister moved up with her dad to Georgia this past summer. I was living with my dad and occasionally staying at my mom's house here in Florida. About a month ago I got a phone call from my older sister around 1:1...read more

by Belinda Brown

It is hard for me to talk about my dad. I guess I am still grieving over his death even though it has been seven years since he left us. Dad died in July 2001 of lung cancer. It was a big shock to us all, especially to me,...read more

by Nancy Gilliam

I sat on the train fatigued but fully awake thinking over the past two weeks, weeks filled with death and loss. The sudden death of a close friend's father. My baby girl losing her first tooth. A contract that did not mate...read more

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by Faith Quinlan-Maus

As I look out my baby's window onto the dirty, wintery, New England yard that was neglected all summer. I think about asking my Dad to help us this spring, cut back the overgrowth and drag out the hedges. How did he say ...read more

by Skye

Losing my father to a heart attack was my first experience with the death of someone close. Later I would remember telling others that I understood their pain in the death of a family member. I didn't. Until it happens ...read more

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by Yvonne Cerkas

I'm sitting here, looking at my computer, reflecting on the numerous times I have wanted and was told I should write about my daughter, Ashley. What was stopping me? What had been stopping me was my assumed inability to ...read more

by Lori Savery-Hinze

It's funny, the things a person can focus on to avoid grieving. When I got the call from my mother that my grandpa was not likely to last the week, I had ten minutes left of my lunch break to pull myself together before go...read more

by Bruce Daniel

My father passed away November of 2007. Maybe it's too soon to write about his passing, but my Pa was such a strength in my life and that of our family. When I start to think about him not being here, I wonder what will ...read more

by Bonnie Moss

Death of a loved one is a final goodbye. To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the sun. A time to be born and a time to die; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time...read more

by Janice Heath

How do you deal with the death of someone who has been important in your life? Initially I think with disbelief. They no longer walk the earth but it's hard to comprehend that. Yesterday I lost my godmother. I didn't s...read more

by Anton Witte

I just wanted to start out by saying that I am sorry for all the loses in the world. It is never fair to see a loved one pass away before their time, or even pass away at all. But we collect ourselves in the end and we liv...read more

by Pat Ritter

Suddenly like blowing out a candle she was gone. I kissed her on the cheek and said my goodbyes for the final time. She didn't have to suffer any longer. She looked absolutely beautiful and a glow surrounded her face befor...read more

by Catharine Jack

My father died in September 2005, it was sudden and unexpected. He was only 57 and was diagnosed with a Stage 4 Brain Tumor only a month before he passed. He complained of headaches that spring, but brushed them off, he ...read more

by Nita Frazier

Losing a parent is a pain that has no name. Grief doesn't describe the pain. It's a pain one can never prepare for. in the normal time frame the parent will die before the child. We know this, yet the pain blindsides u...read more

by Elinor Suhr

Reflections on losing our daughter My reflections of losing a loved one will forever be with me. The missing place at the table ,the place they use to sit in the car. The laugh or the many saying...read more