Thread: Meeting with the funeral director tomorrow

It is like walking around dazed in a surreal waking nightmare. Take your time, take a deep breath (or 2 or 3) and you'll get through it. And it's not really a nightmare, it's just life. The part of life we hate to acknowledge, and spend most of our lives denying...until it smacks us upside the head and says "Face me!" And we do, and we get through it, a little at a time...

Thank you all for the support and advice. I don't mean to keep posting about my brother but it helps to talk with all of you.

InHonorOfRay --
Please feel free to do so at any time. After all, we are here to help one another.

+1 to what mapleleafalumnus said . post anytime.

Originally Posted by InHonorOfRay

Thank you all for the support and advice. I don't mean to keep posting about my brother but it helps to talk with all of you.

Post/Talk/Vent all you want that's what we're here for! I'm 59 years old and I still get teary eyed talking about losing my mom!

I work as a clerk in a grocery store usually checking people out these days. I knew it would happen and it did. A customer asked; How's your mom? I had to tell her that she had died. I got the usual condolences. Boy was it hard to get through the rest of the day!

Hang in there. It's not easy dealing with death! I started burying my friends when I was 14 years old. We were playing a JV football game and I watched my old childhood friend die there on the field in front of my eyes.

I still struggle! You are not alone!

All of your support has made the difference. It is helping me to help the rest of my family with such a hard loss.

You my friend are not alone.

Sadly, we all must face some of lifes worse moments. It feels like we do it alone, but we aren't. Thanks to God, we have our family and friends to help share the burden. Please, feel free to share anything you wish. If it helps, for sure do it!!! It never hurts to get some of it out. And typing it helps to focus those thoughts, which brings it's own form of relief.

All I can do to help is to be there as a friendly ear, ready to hear whatever you need me (us) to to allow you to grieve in your way. I have been so blessed, not losing too many of my friends or family yet, but my days are numbered, as both of my parents are very aged, even my oldest sister is now of the age to be a concern. Hell, my whole family is getting to be the age now where any one of us could go at any moment. It's a sobering thought.

I hope Ray was happy at the end, and didn't suffer, as those of us who are left behind must.

All my best to you, our brother in blades.

M

Sorry to hear of your loss.


R