death of a child

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Decluttering Project, Day 3 Part 1, Emotionally Hard Decisions

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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Anger and Acceptance

Jillybean1222 @jillybean1222 (6406) 31 May 17

I'm still often angry about the death of my son. There are days where I am driving to the gym that I oscillate between yelling at God and quietly doubting His existence. The senselessness of a 13 year old dying in his sleep...

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The Blink of an Eye

Jillybean1222 @jillybean1222 (6406) 23 Sep 16

How does life change in the blink of an eye? You go to bed one night as you have every other night for the last 13 years, a mother of a wonderful living, loving boy (and 4 other wonderful children, of course.) You get up after...

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There's Another Grieving Mother Today ...

Gloria Faye Brown Bates @GrannyGee (3517) • Louisburg, North Carolina 8 Mar 16

I was looking online at this, at that ... last night. I always stop when I see the obituaries for a local funeral home. I forget I can look at it anytime ... I never do. It's strange ... I only look when the link pops up. It...

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Moments to Forget

Jillybean1222 @jillybean1222 (6406) 13 Feb 16

I wish I could forget those moments... those moments on 12/31/12... the day my son died. sometimes the traumatic moments of that horrific morning pop into my head without warning. then i usually wallow in them for a bit....

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Losing My Child, Looking for Crumbs

Jillybean1222 @jillybean1222 (6406) 17 Nov 15

So as I am searching Google, hoping to find meaningful posts, the worst thing is finding a post about my son, but then seeing that it is not cached. I can only see the first few words I wrote. For example, I just saw one...

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Bittersweet Birthday

Jillybean1222 @jillybean1222 (6406) 7 Nov 15

Last night, my second-born son had a joint birthday party with 3 friends to celebrate him turning 14 (which happens in 5 days). The celebration had a wonderful turnout. The kids each received a bunch of fun, low-key gifts (think...

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So Sad a Child Has Died

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 11 Sep 12

He was only a child and had been battling cancer. I thought he was doing better but apparently he got worse again. This is a child I have been connected with for several years now via a tagging group or two on the web. I used to...

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The Justice System Of The USA Is A Joke

Autumnrose2008 @Autumnrose2008 (1478) • United States 23 Jul 11

So as I was reading news articles like I do quite often I came across one that really upset me and got me worked up. I was reading about a mother that had lost her child to a drunk drugged up half blind man that ran her child down...

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Words cannot describe how painful it would be to loose a child.

devijay78 @devijay78 (1573) • India 8 Sep 10

I am writing this because I woke up with my heart racing and tears running down my cheeks. I dreamt that my kid had died and that she had been cremated without my knowledge. I was not even informed of her death and so was not able...

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Dumb way to kill some one #2

TLChimes @TLChimes (4822) • United States 22 May 09

Twice. This mother killed her 3 year old son... twice. She took this young boy to park. Instead of him playing and doing what kids should... he died by his mother's hand. She placed that hand over his mouth and suffocated him....

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A sixteen year old young man dies is Florida. Falls to his Death. Why

onlydia @onlydia (2808) • United States 23 Mar 09

A sixteen year old young man falls to his death. Trying to see the sunrise better 24 floors up. Parents are with him. here is a link to story. http://kstp.com/news/stories/S844296.shtml?cat=1 Police are investigating the death...

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Is it fair when a child dies not to included both parents after a divorce?

kaysue4 @kaysue4 (951) • United States 3 Apr 08

Ok, my son's girlfriend passed away. I didn't know the parents at all. So we are there during the calling hours and we where sitting next to the back row and a group of people come in and sit in back of us. Here this was the...

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Thoughts needed on issue of young children and death of a classmate.

kaysue4 @kaysue4 (951) • United States 3 Apr 08

On Sunday night my 12 year old son, Christopher, came to me very upset because his girlfriend, same age, had died. She lived in a group home for reasons unknown. Now, first of all when he called the group home, in your...

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My Sister Is Slipping Into A State Of Depression...

Darkwing @Darkwing (21583) 14 Jan 08

I'm worried about her. She had a family of six, four of them her own, and the other two her second husband's. She has always tried to treat them the same. She's a very fair, and caring mother. Sadly, at the age of 24, the...

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the death of a child...

jeannebean @jeannebean (73) • United States 16 Jul 07

How would you respond to an old friend upon hearing of the loss of their child? I had this happen this weekend..it was a friend of ten years, that i met on the internet...i've never seen her face, but know everything about...

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