The Death Of A Loved One

Not only was her education affected, because she was unable to attend full days of class, but she also developed a need for drugs and sex. She began doing heroin and constantly cheating on her husband as a way to cope with her mother’s death. Cheryl did not know how to go about her mother’s illness since that was her favorite person in the world. She remembered the thousand things her mother used to compare her love to and all the times they shared together. Cheryl knew she needed to move forward so she made a life changing decision of taking her mother’s ashes into her own body in order for Cheryl to carry her mother with her wherever she was going to go. She later expresses, “Of all the things that convinced me that I should not be afraid while I was on this journey, of all the thing I’d made myself believe so I could hike the PCT, the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety…” (Strayed, 59). Cheryl’s mother continues to play a huge role in her life even after she had passed away which shows how important she really

For a few short years, she was married to a man she loved, and she had family who would support her through anything. However, when she was 22, she was faced with the devastating loss of her mother. With her mother being the cornerstone that held her life together, it began to fall into pieces. Her family, who were once ___ close, started to wander away. “Without her, Eddie slowly became a stranger. Leif and Karen and I drifted into our own lives,” her stepfather married someone else, and both of her siblings moved away (Strayed, 34). They turned into “four people floating separately among the flotsam of [their] grief”, Cheryl felt alone and like she “wasn’t able to keep [her] family together.” (Strayed, 34). Since her family was falling apart, she began to run away from her marriage. She started having affairs with a multitude of men, the most significant being Joe. He offered Cheryl an ‘out’ at the worst time in her life, heroin seemed like an escape route for her from her problems. This would be one of the hardest obstacles Cheryl had to overcome, a heroin addiction, she has “pulled it [heroin] in with both hands,” not stopping to think about what she was really doing (Strayed, 52). This was not the last straw though, weeks before her hike she had an abortion. “That I would get an abortion was a fact so apparent it seemed silly to discuss anything else,” Cheryl knew she was not in the right

In Wild, Strayer implemented a style of contrast to show lettings go of the past to move forward. In this narrative, the first paragraph mentions the “trees being tall, yet she was taller”. By this, she shows confidence even in the face of intimidate objects, for she knows she is greater than any obstacle. She adds onto this belief through the contrast of “clutching the boot like a baby, but she’s twenty-six years old”. Cheryl Strayed exemplifies how sheltered she has been throughout her life, and how she is now in this newfound world with the feelings she no longer has to mask. After her father leaving her family, and mother dying, Strayed had to mask her emotions and keep her remaining family together, while her siblings were falling apart. By being in the wild, she is able to let go and truly live in the environment around her. Even though the curiosity in the mountains led her to roam, she ultimately found herself. Like her life, being lost and alone doesn’t have to prevent her

When I was a child, I dreamt about being a doctor helping others. I knew at the early age of 7 that I wanted to make a difference in others’ lives. After the death of my mother in 1999, I slowly changed my mind about what I wanted to do with my life. I told myself that I would do whatever it took to help bring justice for families that go through what I went through with the death of my mother. As I was going through college I realized that criminal justice wasn’t for me after working in the field. I sat there one day wondering what I would do next and I realized I have a passion for helping others; and I love babies, so why not use that to my advantage. That is how I ended up here at Southern Careers Institute pursuing a career in the

The memoir Wild, by Cheryl Strayed focused on a woman whose whole life was in turmoil. From the passing of her mother to the divorce of her husband, Cheryl lost sight of her values and viewed her life as one ruined by failure and loss. In desperate need of something new to believe in, Cheryl decided to begin the journey with herself by taking an epic journey on the Pacific Crest Trail. Her beliefs and values transform over the journey from the victim of a bad situation to her belief in herself, rebirth and forgiveness.

In the time after the passing of Cheryl's father, it was a time for family to come to grips with what had happened, to reconnect and to treasure. For Cheryl, this meant that she could see her mother in a light like she's never seen in quite a while. After working, Cheryl would go to her mother's house and invite her for supper and, during the weekends, going to Mass and then out for supper. I would prepare good meals that were satisfying. The menu sometimes got changed because it was fun to go out and eat. Cheryl's mom and I would see who's got the fastest wallet in the

They connections in their family disappeared, and her siblings went away to avoid missing their mother, but Strayed decided to stay. She was alone, and the feeling of losing her mother and family was unforgettable. That kind of change in a life is something that no one wants in their life. Cheryl Strayed, one of the best authors of modern literature, in her book, Wild, #1 New York Times best seller and a NPR best book of the year, expresses her feelings of her mother passing away and her family falling apart, “By the time Thanksgiving rolled around eight months after my mom died, my family was something I spoke of in the past tense” (Strayed 35).

“In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once she was a lady. She said she thought it was going to be a good day for driving, neither too hot or too cold, and she cautioned Bailey that the speed limit was fifty-five miles an hour and that the patrolmen hid themselves behind billboards and small clumps of trees and sped out after you before you had a chance to slow down.”

Loss, transitions, and grief affect all people young and old. Losses and grief can be a result of unemployment, miscarriage, loss of hearing or vision, loss of physical or cognitive abilities, infertility, cancer, illness, moving, ending a relationship, not receiving a promotion, becoming an empty nester, a rejection letter from a university, and numerous other losses. Hayhoe (2006), states a period of change as a transition, which is determined by an individual’s own perception whether it is good or bad (p. 63). “All transitions bring a sense of loss for the old path and uncertainty about the new path” (Hayhoe, 2006, p.64). Specifically, Hayhoe studied the effects of unemployment on people. The research found “unemployed individuals show

The process of making decisions for terminally ill patients at the edge of death is a difficult and complex one. The case study, A Difficult Death draws on Dave, a middle-aged successful man, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is terminally ill. Together Dave, his wife Mary, and their daughter Bethany must face Dave’s demise and the emotional toll that it has taken on the family.

Grief is like weather. Some days are cold, wet and stormy, while the other days are bright warm and sunny. Today like most days its storming. I lost my heart, my life, my boyfriend to five bullets 1,327 days ago. Not only have I lost all hope but I forgot how to love so deep. Experiencing the passing of my boyfriend was never easy. I knew the love was always true from all the wonderful times we had, to the phone calls, until the funeral. I knew he was always the one who had my back. Dealing with the death of my boyfriend Dante’ was never easy but his spirit presence helps to persevere though life daily challenges.

Occasionally someone will come along and try to speak with me- no, her. They all come and stand before me, some lay flowers, and stay only for a few minutes each day, while some stay for hours and come only once a month, but they all stand. Not one of them dares to sit as if fearing if they did they would be disturbing the very grounds she lay in. Some clearly loved her. Some clearly did not. A few here and there came with stories from their shared past together, telling stories of the drinking games they once played and how there go to karaoke song was Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. A few came to speak words of regret, words of sorrow for her passing. In the beginning I tried counting. I tried to count the amount of tears people shed over her passing. Eventually the number grew too high and I could no longer keep track. At first, I was puzzled, even years and years after she had joined me in this hell, they were still crying? What possible reason could they still be crying after all these years, and then it hit me. They weren’t crying over her passing, death doesn’t happen to the one who dies, but those who surround them. They were crying over her, everything about her. They were crying over the memories of her that were held within me. They were crying over how she overreacted to things, over her tendency to laugh at even the smallest of things, how she spoke her mind without an ounce of fear in her voice how she eminently believed in helping people and had a genuinely good heart. They cried for the woman who held a vast amount of strength, in not only her work, but her character as well. In that moment of clarity I determined something. She not like the others. The others I simply held, but with her, she holds

Wild by Cheryl Strayed, is a true story about how the author decided to drop everything she had left in life to walk about a thousand miles in over a span of three months; and she would be doing it all alone. Cheryl 's life fell apart when she was 22; she lost her mother to cancer, got addicted to drugs, and had sex with any guy that wanted to. Even though Cheryl had been married, that soon fell apart too when her husband, Paul, found out about her infidelity. Leading Cheryl to want to find the woman her mother always thought she was.

The death of a loved one is one of the most challenging events I have had to overcome. The summer of 2014, I was just going into my junior year, was one for the books. It was an absolutely amazing summer. My sister had her first baby in May and we were getting to make his first summer his best, but little did we know it would also be his last. We lost him at the end of July. It was one of the hardest things to cope with. So many unanswered questions still to this day stand.

In between the two world wars, America suffered from hunger and unemployment. This all happened because of the huge economic crisis, which struck the whole world in 1929. It is not unusual that this type of crisis can lead man into alcoholism and gambling, and quickly, a whole family can be on the edge of destruction.