Losing loved ones...

I've lost plenty of family just like im sure many other's have to. My grandfather past away tonight tho I didn't know him(only met him once) I still feel sorrow it's understandable. But my father did not shed a tear, this was the first family member he has ever lost. and when ever I ask my friends, some say the lost some and other dont it's heart wrenching.

i'm sorry about that. i would hug you if i could. :/

as for myself - many of my friends have died. my grandmother passed away almost two years ago. it may not be as impacting as a person, but my last cat died in my arms, and it was also pretty disheartening for me. some people have told me that as you lose more people, it's something you adjust to easier and it doesn't affect you as much.

i think it's not so much easier to 'adjust' to, rather than you find different ways to cope with it.

Thank you and I understand about your cat my dog had Parvo. And on the day of my birthday and my swim championships they put him down. It broke my heart and my mind I wasent prepared for the bomb shell that hit me that day.

[font=Courier New]Unfortunately passing on has never been something we can easily adjust to if at all. I feel your pain & my prayers go out to you & your family during this difficult time. Losing a loved one [even in the case of not knowing them well] is a terrible thing to go through & from my own personal experience being surrounded by ones who care for you & your happiness well definitely ease the pain.

Cherish those whom you love with all your heart, create wonderful memories with each & every one of them, & smile the biggest you can through the tears. They'd want your happiness.

I myself have suffered a huge loss as well with my father. But I remain thankful to him every day for bringing me into this world, I smile for him every chance I get & visit his grave regularly to pay my respects. Sure there's sadness every time I see that tombstone... but I hold my chest, raise my head, & even if tears start to stream down my cheeks I give him the smile of the son who loved him with every fiber of his being.[/font]

I lost my grandma last yr. It was a few days after i turned 21, basically it was on mothers day and well next yr my b'day falls on it. I didn't shed a tear for her unlike my other grandma but I felt sad regardless and I still do. I can't really get over the fact that she's the 3rd family member i lost and i havent even cried for her.

Lost my grandparents, cousins, friends, my buddies in combat, one of my girlfriends and others... they wonder why im on meds.

sorry to hear that.
I have lost 3 of my uncles, both my grandpa and grandma and well I have always felt hopeless like there was nothing I could do. There was nothing I could do but move on and live my life.
Losing a loved one is not easy hell just someone you barely knew is hard. Many people take a lose differently to each is own.
It's hard to lose but you have to just move on and learn from that person's life. If you learn from there triumphs and mistakes then that makes you a better person and that their death was not for nothing.
I wish you well

I lost my Grandfather in 2001, and all my other grandparents talk about these days is how close they are to dying, so they're probably gone in another year or two. You get used to it in my experience, but then again, I'm pretty emotionless.

Just last week, I celebrated one of my cousins' weddings followed the next day by my uncle's funeral.

Many in my family have passed away (most of the adults are about the same age as most peoples grandparents).

But that's simply the way it is. I don't think of death as any sort of tragedy, for it is inescapable.

Sorry to hear about your loss Arcane noble.

I've only experienced one loss in my lifetime, that being my father when I was 7. Fucking horrible experience, I would never wish that sort of grief on anyone.

I lost my grandfather (mother's side) three years ago, he was a kind man. Although I did not meet him the later years of his life. He became an alcoholic and my mother didn't want me to meet him when he was drunk. He later on Hung himself.

I don't want to sound like a complete asshole, but I didn't feel anything when my 2 Grandmothers passed away or when my Godfather passed away. I knew them, but didn't cry, wasn't sad, or mourn their deaths. I went along as if nothing had happened.

Talk about a cold heart.

I've had a friend die and my grandpa die. I were very close with my grandpa so it was a big loss and i were very sad, but I seem to be very good to cope with things like that, since it hasn't had any real impact on me. Of course I were, and still am, very sad about that he's gone but I just see it as part of live and move on without letting it interfere with my life. Not that I'm cold hearted, cause I'm certainly not, but I'm just good at taking those kind of things it seems.

So far I've only lost a very close uncle. I spent about a week mournng with my family, and that week was incredibly tough. His passing hurt so bad but I didn't have any tears to cry for him. When the news of his death was delivered to me in class I didn't cry; when the viewing came around and I couldn't look at his body because my mind made it look like he was breathing and only asleep I didn't cry; when I saw my now-fatherless cousin, one of the strongest guys I knew, weeping uncontrollably on the ground the tears hit. I cried more then ever before, for my uncle's passing and for all the pain in and around me. I cried until I couldn't cry anymore.

It was one of the most painful things I've ever been through, and that was just for my uncle. I'm dreading he day when it's for my dad.

I've known a number of people I've appreciated and respected who have died.
My uncle finally lost his life-long battle with cancer last fall, for instance.

It sucks... I don't like it. But I move on.
Luckily no one very close to me has been lost, yet, but I'll probably have the same opinion then as well.

Lost my father and my cousin in the same year of 2010. 2 months within each other.
I smiled in my fahter's funeral, only because I had an early memory which my father said to never cry. I held back alot in that time. By the time my cousin's death came around, I couldn't feel anything. It was, in truth, the weirdest feeling I've felt in my life so far.
An ambivalence of several emotions I couldn't put words to.

One of my other uncles is diabetic to the point of blindness. Mostly to blame himself because he really is idiotic in a dangerous yet comedic way. I fear he may go before my gramps.

It's very painful sorry to hear about all your lost ones but it's the common pain we all feel so were never alone in how we feel. At times it's a comfort to know that your not the only one who goes through this.

I have lost my father at a very young age so there wasn't very much time for me to know him well enough but very few cherished memories.For me it's painful in a sense that i am missing something that i once had and i won't ever have it again. Never being able to know the man he was.

The only ones i have left are my parents and my grandma. So fuckin' sad. Everyone i know has so much family members.....
Feels bad man