Life and Death
Life is a precious commodity and it never hits home quite as hard as when someone younger than us dies. This week my daughter’s boyfriends older brother was killed in an car accident. He was twenty years old.
I was awakened by a whisper, “Mom, **** died last night.”
I immediately sat up and asked what happened and she told me it was a car accident and her boyfriend was crying and she didn’t know what to do. I told her to take him to his mother’s house. It was 5:30 in the morning. My daughter is 18, her boyfriend is 19 (AND yes, they both live with me).
Since then my daughter has been shuttling back and forth, but has been dazed and keeps saying, “I can’t believe I will never hear his voice again, or I will never see his face again.” This is the first person she has really known, of her age that has died.
The most heart breaking has to be for his mother. Children are not supposed to go before their parents and she is having a very difficult time. This has not been lost on my daughter either. She feels for her as well as people come over and the grieving process proceeds. The date for the funeral has not been set yet and all I can do is stand in the background and listen as my youngest child grows up and handles an adult situation.
And in the back of my mind I pray please protect my three children every time they get into a car.
Tags: children, death, life
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