bereavement
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Loyal Opposition
@PinkFloydFan (1187)
• United States
3 Oct 23
I can't get over it.. I think I'm worse. I'm not able to eat or sleep, and when I force myself to eat after smoking legal stuff, I can't keep it down, despite it being bird food.
The world keeps turning, though.. My bills didn't...
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Gary Marsh
@garymarsh6 (23998)
• United Kingdom
31 Jul 19
I am not really up to posting much at the moment but a friend of mine contacted to let me know that @goaskalice had passed away. I did not know him personally but I do know that he was a very popular and fair guy who helped people...
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John Welford
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
6 Jun 19
My mother died on Sunday at the age of 103 (not far short of 104). I am pleased to say that she did not have a lingering illness and suffered no pain and very little discomfort during her final days. She spent her last couple of...
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Barbara Radisavlejvic
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
15 Sep 18
One of the hardest parts of decluttering is getting rid of things you saved for emotional reasons, like I saved this hat for 27 years. It was Jason's Webelos hat when he first joined Cub Scouts. When Jason died in 1991, it took a...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
13 Jul 17
The popular proverb You Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself tends to make me compile a list of all the other things to fear.
Death, illness, dementia, stress, Alzheimer’s, being fired or made redundant, bankruptcy,...
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Gloria Faye Brown Bates
@GrannyGee (3517)
• Louisburg, North Carolina
27 Jan 17
Thin Air
By Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee
I reached out into the air
Reaching toward something unseen
Hoping to find ... to hold my son's hand
I felt nothing as I held my hand out
I moved my hand back ... forward as...
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Barbara Radisavlejvic
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
13 Sep 16
About this time last week I received an email forwarded through HubPages that took me back to 1991, the year my fourteen year old son died in an accident. In 2009 my daughter voluntarily followed him while in a deep depression....
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Gloria Faye Brown Bates
@GrannyGee (3517)
• Louisburg, North Carolina
29 Feb 16
I was answering comments on my story tonight. The story is about grief, pain ... loss of my son. Someone commented to me that others might find comfort in my words ... others who have experienced loss of a child.
If someone...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
18 Dec 15
I hate people who tell you in advance that the story they are about to relate is extremely funny and how much you’ll be laughing by the time the story ends. Somehow, you just know the story is going to drag on for some time, prove...
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Janet Anderson
@Auntylou (4262)
• Oxford, England
9 Nov 15
My mum died just last year , though it seems much longer.
She was in her eighties and died suddenly of a heart attack having been increasingly frail for some time. She was lucky in this as she had always said that she would not...
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Barbara Radisavlejvic
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
27 Aug 15
I will never forget that day. He was 14. He was going off to a lake near Los Angeles to water ski with a small group from church. One of the four adults in the group had a boat and water skis. We didn't know he was also bringing a...
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beautyqueen26
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
13 Oct 08
I don't usually read obituary columns in our
local area, cause I don't know many people here.
But, I have read a few obituaries and always find
them morbidly fascinating.
Sometimes, I walk away from the experience
with...
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