Skip to content

Important Message

You are browsing the archived Lancers Reactor forums. You cannot register or login.
The content may be outdated and links may not be functional.


To get the latest in Freelancer news, mods, modding and downloads, go to
The-Starport

Grieving

This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.

Post a reply

J Dawg

Post Thu May 12, 2005 8:26 pm

Grieving

At some point in our lives, we all face a time when we lose a family member. On Saturday, my aunt passed away after a long and painful fight with bone cancer. This weekend, most of the family is leaving for the funeral ( I am unable to go due to prior performance obligations). For me, this is the first time that i've had to deal with the passing of a family member, and to be honest, it didn't affect my like I had expected. Perhaps it hasn't hit me yet, perhaps i'm trying to find my own way to grieve. That, I must do myself. What I ask for, is how I go about consoling my other family members, (especially my mother- it was her sister) who were particularly hard hit by this event. How does one cope with this?

bret bretonian

Post Thu May 12, 2005 11:09 pm

Time. It is only thing that heals emotional wounds. Well, for me anyway.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Balthazar Furious

Post Fri May 13, 2005 1:29 am

If you want to help someone cope with the loss of a loved one, one of the best things you can do is simply listen. Be the shoulder to cry on whenever they're feeling down about it. Often people feel much better when they've been able to get things off their chest or have someone as a sounding board. As for not feeling as you expected, when my grandfather died, it had almost no impact on me, nor when my grandmother died, and to this day I still can't figure out why. Only once or twice was I really hit hard by their deaths. I'm sorry to hear about your loss and I wish you and your family the best in terms of getting through this difficult period.

-------------------------------
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. - James D. Nicoll

Ich liebe dich Luke, mein teurer Schatz. - Kieran

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues. - Iba Ezra

house atreides

Post Fri May 13, 2005 10:00 am

I am sorry for your loss and I hope you can be there for not only your mother but your entire famly because most likely all of them are going to need a strong shoulder to cry on. I myself loss my mother when I was 14, she had lost cusity of me when I was 8 and my father on rarely let me visit her, so I was close but not close to her. When she died I was at her funeral and I did not cry. For years it bugged me that I didnt cry but I understood that she would have wanted me to be happy and live life, not morn her. One thing that I have realised in the 20 years since her death is that the pain never goes away, and to tell you the truth I hope it never does because that would mean that I no longer remember her, no longer love her. Even thou not one day goes by without me thinking something about her I dont let the pain of her abstance rule my life or even effect it. That part takes time and while I had noone to turn to to confort me your mother does and that will help her a great deal in the months to come.

Blessed Be to all those that still dream of the flight to the stars.

Return to Off Topic




Hosted by The Starport • Theme by ST Software