Personal Loss for senior citizens
Grieving personal loss In one’s life, there is always personal loss, like a grandparent or an older relative who succumbed to cancer or heart disease. And it's sad, but you still had friends and probably your parents. But when you get older, the loss seems to be frequent, and the loss of folks that you are closest to. Since my parents were older than most of my friend's parents, I seemed to spend more than my share of time in funeral homes. All my grandparents were deceased by the time I was thirteen, and I had lost many aunts and uncles from my mother’s family. I almost grew numb at all the funerals we attended. But I was a kid, young, and I knew that time somehow stood still when you were younger. Of course, it didn’t, but it seemed that way. As I moved on in my life and had a family of my own, death was sad but not devastating. My wife moved on after her father died of cancer at a young age. Then, her grandmother passed away. The emotional impact of loss gave my wife...