It is truly
interesting to see how other people react to death, people can be so awkward
and different about it. It’s as if they
have never experienced it themselves so they have no idea as to what’s going
on. People definitely can say the wrong
things easily. One thing I’m sure people
going through this difficult time hate hearing is, “I know how you feel.” Because I feel like saying “No actually you
don’t, you have no idea what this feels like, how dare you try to compare
something to this.”
“Is there anything I can do for you?” yet another phrase used that gets rather annoying after a while. Obviously we aren’t going to be asking for a lot during this time and the only thing we want is the person we can’t get back. “It will be all right.” No it won’t be all right, We just lost one of the closest people to us, how do you expect everything to be all right? Which in the long run most the time everything does work out but at the time it doesn’t seem like anything will ever work out again.
People going through this difficult time do need to realize that people do feel awkward during these times and they are just trying to help. But other people need to recognize the appropriate things to say.
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“Is there anything I can do for you?” yet another phrase used that gets rather annoying after a while. Obviously we aren’t going to be asking for a lot during this time and the only thing we want is the person we can’t get back. “It will be all right.” No it won’t be all right, We just lost one of the closest people to us, how do you expect everything to be all right? Which in the long run most the time everything does work out but at the time it doesn’t seem like anything will ever work out again.
People going through this difficult time do need to realize that people do feel awkward during these times and they are just trying to help. But other people need to recognize the appropriate things to say.
Photo credit:
http://www.onloanfromheaven.com/2011/12/what-not-to-say-to-birthmom.html