My Family

My great-grandmother was the matriarch of my family. When I was in seventh grade, around thirteen years old, she passed away due to breast cancer. This misfortune created an extremely difficult time for me because, not only was I adjusting to the environment of junior high, but many other issues were occurring in my life; this was the third death that I was having to deal with. Unfortunately, one of the previous deaths (that I was still trying to hurdle through and come to terms with), had occurred almost exactly a year before the passing of my great-grandmother. The second death that I had gone through occurred only one or two months before my great-grandma has passed. All of this turmoil created numerous internal conflicts for me, but also taught me a key lesson to keep note of, for the rest of my life.

This made me think about what I would do if my mother died. I believe I would probably be very sad, but I would also keep moving in life. I can’t just stop what I am doing because someone has died -- my aunt’s death already taught me that. Everyone has to go sometime; that time will come sooner or later -- it’s inevitable. Starting anew every time someone close dies is a bad idea, because one will never get anything done that way. (84

Imagine it, waking up, believing it was like any other day, only to have your world come crashing down. We believe loved ones are invincible until they are not.

When I was about 5 or 6 years-old, I lost one of my grandmothers to Lung Cancer. She was my best friend; we were always together no matter what. I remembered when she passed away. Everyone cried but me. They said that she was my angel and would always be with me. I believed them, but I also knew that it would finally grow on me, and I would have to realize that she was buried and never coming back.

You may think that it will be a while before you will lose someone like your grandma or grandpa, but it might not be. For all you know, they could die right now in a blink of an eye, not knowing and blissfully unaware. That’s what happened when my grandmother died over three years ago. I knew that my grandmother was dying, but I didn’t guess that it would be so soon. After that day, I figured out that I should not take anything for granted because it can all be taken away by the hands of fate.

Every time I hear about losing one of my family members it is hard for me to let the fact go that they had passed away. It is one of the roughest feelings to ever go through because I also had family that has passed away from the stress of losing other family members too. One of my worst feeling is when my uncle had died when I was only about four years old. He was part of my childhood and the reason why is because I was always riding around with

Sometimes it is easy to forget how much someone can mean to you, until they’re gone. No one knows when will be the last time they will see someone. Through personal experience, I have learned to always cherish the moments you share with loved ones, because it might be their last. I never thought my friend would die soon in his young life.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lose someone. How would you talk to them? What would you do without them? How would you feel without them.I have I lost my great grandma, and that was the day in my life that that changed everything. On this day I learned that life is way too short to even say one last word to that special person.

Have you ever lost someone that you thought was invincible? One day they are here and the next they are gone. My grandma Suzie passed away in 2004. She emigrated over from Mexico when she was approximately thirteen years old. She met my grandpa Joe when she was twenty and had three children. Unfortunately, my grandpa passed away. She met my grandpa Tom and they got married. They fostered children all the time. Maria, who lives in Texas now, come to the funeral and talked very highly of my grandmother. My grandmother was the best baker, story teller and gave people the best opportunities she could.

When I was 11 my Great Grandpa passed away. It made every single one of my family members glum. My family was always visiting my Great Grandpa which lived at a nursing home in Pocahontas. He started to get worse each day so he started to get more visitors each day. We got the news about Great Grandpa’s death and the funeral was going to be the next weekend.

We make arrangements for the day, and don’t think twice about how those arrangements can be taken away in a matter of moments. Not till ,“You don’t know about real loss because it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself” (Good Will Hunting), I never considered real loss until I was confronted with the unpredicted, and unquestionable truth of my aunt’s passing. I don’t suppose anyone thinks about misfortune until they are really confronted with stunning news along with losing someone important. I never at any point found the opportunity to see my aunt before she had passed away and a chance to say

In this life, death happens to all of us. However, some people cringe at the thought of living with another who is dying. In the past, I had accompanied my dying father for short periods of time in his household. He led a life of high stress and poor diet which contributed to a slow death from heart disease. The experience also left me with a new appreciation for life and everything that I have. Reminders of what is important in this life are a gift. Even though some people believe that too much time in a depressing situation such as losing a loved one is stressful and unhealthy, but in reality, the experience can give someone a new appreciation for life.

It is unbelievable how we take things for granted. Plans are made for each day, and we do not think twice about those plans. Unfortunately, they can change in the blink of an eye. I never personally thought much about it, until I was faced with the shock and tragedy of the death

Death is one of those touchy subjects that no one likes to talk about. It is hard to talk about something that forces you to acknowledge the fact that your life can end unexpectedly at any point and time. You may be prepared to die, you may not. As a child I was not exposed to death all that much. I remember as a child hearing about family members dying but it did not affect me as much as it did my parents; I was young, I didn’t really know that many people in my family at the time where as my parents grew up with these people and had life experiences with them. The only people that I knew were my immediate family and my close extended family, which are my grandparents. So when I had my first real experience of the death of one of my close family members it was very intense.

Family is the most important aspect of a person’s life because they are the people that have been there since day one. Without family, a person wouldn’t have anyone to teach them values, morals