To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
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I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.
To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.
Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!
To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.
It's everyone's dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective.
I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.
When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.
People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.