She died suddenly in her sleep, while my grandfather was the only one at home. This was a great…
According to my own experiences, I lost two of my precious best friends and they taught me really good lessons before leaving me, they taught me how to never trust any kind of person because they were taught that way and told me to never trust anyone, because now or later they are going to stab your back. One of my other experiences was that moment that my grand-mother left us, before her death, she used to tell us “I don’t want to leave all of you feeling sad, in my death I want to see all of you smiling”. When she left us, she left everyone smiling. Even in her funeral, people celebrated like it was a wedding and not a funeral.…
That was the day that my grandpa passed away. Every single part of that date is engrained in my memory. My parents had driven up to Wisconsin, and my older sister Lauren drove home for college to stay with me. It wasn’t out of the normal for my parents to quickly leave, so I didn’t think much of it. I remember going to hang out with Tatum, my best friend of the time. It was a nice day outside, so of course we were outside playing on the trampoline and doing all our weird routines like we always did. Her family, who was like a second family to me, decided to go out to eat so they brought me along. We went to La Charitas. I remember how Mrs. Teeple pulled out a funny card game for us to play, and I remember Tatum cutting out faces in her tortilla, making us all laugh. When we got back to the house we saw that my sister called, so I said bye to the Teeples and walked one minute down the road to my house. Lauren, who is one of the most emotional in the family, was left with the task of telling me that my grandpa had passed away. I had just grabbed a snack of chocolate cheerios as she started to tell me the news. I didn’t know how to react, so I ran into the basement directly to the furthest corner I could find. Lauren tried talking to me, but I wanted to be by myself. One of the hardest things I have ever done was talking to my dad on the phone after finding out. He called to tell me the plans, that he was coming home to get us, and…
I am sure each and every one of you here today has something special to share about how my grandpa touched your life. I have a story I would like to share. Right after Grandpa got sick and was told he had…
When I was about nine years old my great grandma Betty died. She was my grandpa’s mom. I remember my mom getting the call and her telling everyone that we needed to go, of course I was curious and kept asking where we were going. Once we got to her house my mom told my brother and I to sit outside, once we waited about 5 minutes outside on an old swing of my great grandmas my mom came and told us that she died. Of course I didn’t really understand so I just kinda said ok. Then my mom’s cousin saw us and asked if we wanted to go to the park and gas station to get some candy. Once we got to the gas station I remember getting some kind of sour candy and my brother getting a candy bar. After that we went to the park and played there for a good…
I could tell people this is why I don’t try or want to do anything but I don’t because I know that my grandma would never want. I feel that anyone going through the loss of a friend or family member should always think of the positive outlook instead of the negative. Looking at the negative side of it can create all different kinds of problems for a person. If you look at the positive you can use that as motivation to do anything in life. Life can get hard but you can never let the hardships depict and destroy your life. You aren’t on this earth for a long time so you have to make the best of…
The first thing that I can think of that we did over the summer was go to Cedar Point and Soak City. My grandpa and I drove to Ohio on Friday when he got home from work. The car ride was amazing, I had the music loud and the windows down and my feet out the window. When we got to Ohio we went to…
Death was something new to me. I had never had to deal with someone close to me passing. I had experienced my friends losing a grandparent or a distant relative, but it had not affected me terribly much. I always considered myself to be lucky I had not suffered through the pain of losing someone brought. When this finally occurred, the first challenge was presented to me: accepting the fact I didn’t have a father anymore.…
The biggest thing that I learned about myself from this experience is that I look at the bad in a lot of situations and not the good. I learned that when I think of death I think of sadness and grieving that is dark in nature. I always thought of the experience of death as being so depressing and not being able to be happy during such a time. In many cases, I wonder if that is because death is not something we commonly talk about in our society because it is projected as being so depressing. In my own family experience, we never talked about dying. Sure there were family pets that died and during that time we talked about them going to pet heaven, but the real meaning of life and death was never really talked about. I think that I have learned that I want to be more open about life and death and what it really means to live and cherish this life. I want to start living in a way where I can find hope in the darkest of time and not dwell on the…
My grandpa has been my Michigan hero my entire life. My grandpa is more that Superman or Batman to me, because he can do almost anything. Sadly, my grandpa should be dead right now. My grandpa was hospitalized in January 2003, and I was born in January 2003. My grandpa was in the hospital because he had stage 4 cancer. The Hospital told him he would not live 30 more days, So he told them he wanted to go home if he had no chance at living. Surprisingly, I got out of the hospital that same week my grandpa got released. So my grandpa that never thought he would get to see me or hold me, might have a chance to before he would die.…
I recall clearly the day I received the news my grandfather had passed away. My parents sat my brother and I down in the living room, and when I heard I remember staring blankly at the Christmas tree in the corner, at a loss for words. The flashing lights on the tree blurred as tears filled my eyes. I was only twelve, and the realization that I would never see my papa again was equally confusing, as it was heartbreaking. He had battled with lung cancer for months, and it was so disappointing how it all ended. My whole family spent many late nights at the hospital, and we all had hoped that he would have more time left. It was a hurtful loss, and he is still greatly missed, five years later. Looking back, however, I can now grasp how much the…
We lose people in our lifetime that are dear to us for a specific reason what really matters is that the time they spent with you while they were alive and how you used that time to show them how much you loved them. At the age of nine I lost my great grandpa who was like another father to me. I remember when they had called my mom to tell her he had passed away she rushed to get her things packed. I was worried because she wouldn't say where she was going until after she was gone because she knew we wouldn't have let her go by herself especially since it was my great grandpa. I didn't think it was fair for him to leave yet there were still many things we had not experienced together. My favorite moments were when we would go to get candy at the little shop that was around the corner from his house in Mexico. The very last time I saw him was two years before he had passed away I couldn't bare his passing. I didn't get a chance to see him one last time because he had passed away when we were still in school my parents wouldn't have taken us out of school to go to Mexico for his funeral. I couldn't forgive myself for not seeing him at least one last time even if he wasn't alive it would've of meant the world to me to at least be beside him.…
I learned how important it was to live. Death is inevitable, but we can’t let it dominate our lives. Instead of allowing a loss to split people apart, it should bring people…
Grief is a natural feeling to loss. Throughout our life we will all experience some form of loss whether it be the loss of a loved one to something as simple as losing your phone or your keys.…
In addition, my grandparents planned a lot of activities to keep us amused. We and our friends used to go to the beach every morning, and sometimes we went in the afternoons too. We played a lot of board games such as dominoes, canasta, continental and monopoly. Also, we used to play outdoors. For example we did races, played hide-and-seek, and took refreshing hose showers at the backyard.…