Friend passed away

Keep moving forwards Desmond, if you can.

We can grieve and reflect whilst we move.

Honour the dead by honouring your continuing gift of life.  I think this is good and healthy, and I suspect what most dead people would wish for, from us.  My terminally ill friends and family have all urged this upon me, before their deaths.

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Honour the dead by honouring your continuing gift of life

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Excellent advice.

Here, in Ireland, there's the tendency to discard everything one had before; after a bereavement. I know a woman who had SIXTEEN kids. After one of her sons committed suicide, she became skeletal and pale.

Excellent advice.

Here, in Ireland, there's the tendency to discard everything one had before; after a bereavement. I know a woman who had SIXTEEN kids. After one of her sons committed suicide, she became skeletal and pale.

Gosh sixteen children! She must have been exhausted when they were growing up.

PS. I'm from Ireland as well