How history will go down...

[in_to_the_blue]

Death is not but in life's shadow, as life is not but in death's shadow. Two sides of the same coin: in life there is death, in death there is life. A few things in this life are so perfect, yet give way to heartache and heavy eyes, and yet taken for granted. I think anybody who understands animals and environments would understand this philosophy

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[misfitdolly]

:(

I wish I had words to say...

[in_to_the_blue]

Me too. She passed last thursday, and it still hasn't really hit me.

[misfitdolly]

My grandparents on my mom's side are starting to feel their age. They are both in their late 80's and the health problems are beginning. It kinda hit me last week that they aren't going to get any better...this is just what happens when people get old. All of my grandparents are still alive, so I do not know what it feels like to lose one. When it does happen, I do not know how I will respond...I have never dealt with that sort of grief before, so it kinda scares me to think about how I will react.

If I was in California right now I would hug you.

[in_to_the_blue]

You would have also felt a 5.6 earthquake.

But, that aside, I guess with my own philosophy, I tend to try to remember how they lived, not how they died. Funerals annoy me for this reason, in that they tend to focus on the death-and-beyond part of it, and to some extent it seems like a disrespect. My grandpa was a tough and strong man, but he was portrayed as weak and it was stressed upon how he finally "gave in" at his funeral. I was not pleased. My grandma's funeral is tomorrow, and she was a funny, caring woman. That's how I want to remember her, not the 5 month hospital stay where she was hardly coherent half the time. I dread going there for the lack of closure that's going to come from the elegy.

Even then, I guess I'm a bit sadder for the ones they leave behind. It's a weight, a void, and a pain, all in one, that those who were closest to them will feel for the rest of their lives...