A Parent's Death: A Short Story

I believe we are defined by events that happen throughout our lives both passivity and negatively. Most of the events that change people’s paths often happen suddenly in their life and sometimes have long term effects. Whether it is a personal, religious, life style, or even a career change the fact still remains the cause for change was caused by the event.

I spent most of the morning stuck in my thoughts, why was I not grieving my parent's death? Why had I never noticed I was supernatural? Dominating most of my thoughts, did I have feelings for Jordan, my brother's best friend?

Death and dying is a natural and unavoidable process that all living creatures will experience at some point in life, whether it is one’s own person death or the death of a close friend or family member. Along with the experience of death comes the process of grieving which is the dealing and coping with the loss of the loved one. Any living thing can grieve and relate to a loss, even children (Shortle, Young, & Williams, 1993). “Childhood grief and mourning of family and friends may have immediate and long-lasting consequences including depression, anxiety, social withdrawal, behavioral disturbances, and school underachievement” (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2006, p. 61). American children today grow up in cultures that attempt to avoid grief and

The short story starts by explaining the fantasy land of having every boyfriend one’s ever had and trapping them in a village while they are also trapped on the outside of the village. So, the author explains how the person is waiting on the border of this village, watching these boyfriends live together. Doss then explains the boyfriends everyday task together like, riding motorcycles, getting drunk, and exercising. After understanding the concept of this village, the audience is introduced with the problem of the continuously growing population and how the area is overflowing with these men. Doss explains this in good imagery by saying how the men are sleeping on floors and in bathtubs. As he goes on explaining where all the boyfriends sleeps,

Be stock in life and can figure out the problem! Time is all about spend time with the people with without live in the past. After his dad recently pass away, everything Emely did was living in that house just to remember her Dad, and don’t show people that she is living with her dad in the same bed just to remember him as a good thing living in the past time.

FEARNLEY, RACHEL (July 2010), Death of a parent and the children’s experience: Don’t ignore the elephant in the room, Journal of Interprofessional Care (pgs. 450–459)

In the past couple of months I have read a couple of news stories involving parents who left there child in a locked and hot car, some resulting in death. One of these involved a woman in Hackensack, New Jersey who took one of her two children in the Costco to shop, while the other a 2 year old was left in her minivan for 30 minutes. 911 was called, the police responded and the child was rescued from the vehicle, covered in sweat, scared, and very shaken, but alive. The mother was charged with child endangerment, and both children were returned to there father that day.

The growth and development of a child is highly influenced by the character of the people around him or her and the environment where they are raised since they easily take the behavior of the people around them. Their psychological development is highly dependent on their experiences and how they are treated by those older than them. The novel The Autobiography of my Mother by Jamaica Kincaid reveal some complications that usually affect children when growing up. Parents play a key role in shaping the lives of their children and the absence of an emotional attachment between them usually leads to psychological problems later in life.

died I would want to die too.’ The boy said, ‘So you could be with me?’ the father said, ‘Yes. So I could be with you.’ The boy reply to his father, ‘Okay’” (11). This means that the father never wants to leave his son alone. He wants to live and die with his son.

After many confrontations with him, my father had finally told me what had happened that night. That night my father's life; including mine; had completely changed. My mother had wondered off into the spare room and never came out. She was 4 months pregnant with me and was going to turn the spare room into my nursery. However, it never became reality. My father never really knew what actually happened in that room but, he heard screams penetrating out from the room. The screams had rung in his ears and he had sprinted up stairs. My mother was pinned to the ceiling, stomach cut and flames barricading around her. A silhouette of a man, but the soul of a demon stood over the crib dripping blood into the baby's mouth, which was lying in the

Jackie couldn't stop tossing and turning. She was dreaming, the same dream she had every night for the past year. Every time she would lay down in bed, she knew it would happen. That didn’t stop it from being horrific and have her wake up out of breath and some nights, screaming. In her dream she could see the smoke rise in the air and fan out over ceiling and form a blanket of death, next, she heard the screams. They were the worst part of her dream, they echoed in her ears, pleading her to help, to try to move. Instead she stood frozen in front of her parent’s room. She could see the flames start lick the bottom of the door. The smoke poured out the newly burned holes and filled the hallway. The screams stopped. She knew what that meant. This was the 365th dream, the 365th time she witnessed her parent’s burn to death in front of her. One year of reliving the events of

Many Children lose a parent at a young age. Numerous people don’t take into consideration what these children go through. The pain they feel everyday or even every so often. Losing a parent as a child can cause significant issues in the future such as, developmental and mental issues.

My father passed away in 1991, two weeks before Christmas. I was 25 at the time but until then I had not grown up. I was still an ignorant youth that only cared about finding the next party. My role model was now gone, forcing me to reevaluate the direction my life was heading. I needed to reexamine some of the lessons he taught me through the years.

Every morning I still wake up thinking that she is there drinking her tea in her room , watching tv. Then suddenly the truth comes rushing up to me and I realize that it is just a dream hanging around me still, and a cold despair fall upon me. I feel empty inside. My mother’s death was a really sobering experience I’ve passed through. It was the most devastating loss in my life.

Today theologians have been debating whether or not the son has a subordinate relationship to the father. To help understand this question better in smaller terms we will break it down. Son in this sense means Jesus because he is the son of God. Subordinate means lower in rank or position. Father in this sense means God. Now the question becomes does Jesus have a lower rank or position to God. There are two different sides to this question. The first side is that The son is subordinate to the father on Earth but not in eternity. The other side is that the son is subordinate to the father on Earth and in eternity.