There has been a death in the family recently, and everyone is dealing with the loss in his or her own way.
The part that is most upsetting about when someone dies is that there are no more opportunities to 'make things right'.
They are gone, and whatever the state of your relationship when the person dies, that is the way it remains. Many people cannot handle that, especially when they have put off saying the hard things, like 'I love you', and 'I'm sorry'.
One of the things that I have a hard time with is trying to keep up with people, to tell them how I feel about them and what they mean to me, and to apologize when I need to - without my ego getting in the way.
So far, I have been mostly successful in doing this; being emotionally transparent, while difficult, makes things a LOT easier when someone passes away... while the pain (of loss) is still there, the guilt (of not saying/doing things) is not.
Lesson here: Tell the people that you love that you love them. More importantly, SHOW them that you love them.
And don't wait until they are at death's door, either.
Remember, the sick are not always closest to death.
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