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The most difficult thing I have ever lived through has been my sister's death. Five years ago, when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer we had about five months left to be with her before she was gone. I know that death is never easy but I never knew it could be so hard. Jenny was eight years older than I was, and I had grown very accustomed to her being a part of my life every single day since I can remember. There was nothing to prepare me for her death.
The day she died was weird for all of us but I remember telling myself that it had really happened but I did not feel like it had really happened. I knew that I was probably in some sort of shock and I remember lying on my bed in the dark waiting for it to hit me. It really did not hit me until I had to go to work. It had been a week since I had gone anywhere or done anything and once I left my insulated world, it felt like it was not my world anymore. I remember I just started crying driving to work.
A tried to be strong and brave at work and I think I made it until lunchtime and then I could not stand it any longer. All morning long I could only think about the things that I would never get to tell my sister again. We always shared funny work stories. She knew Greg the geek that is in the cubicle next to me always clears his throat every 20 minutes. She also knew about...
…there was light-heartedness, friendship, and hope…they were the memories of a love for a woman. Then all became confused and there was still less of what was good; later on again there was still less that was good, and the further he went the less there was. His marriage, a mere accident, then the disenchantment that followed it... (Tolstoy, 1886, 29-30). He realizes that all the while he thought he was
Death and Dying 'My new body was weightless and extremely mobile, and I was fascinated by my new state of being. Although I had felt pain from the surgery only moments before, I now felt no discomfort at all. I was whole in every way -- perfect," (Eadie "Embraced" 30). In her groundbreaking book Embraced by the Light, Betty J. Eadie writes about her own near-death experience to help dispel the
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