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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!
To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
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.
Anyone who has lost a child will tell you that they don't recover their sense of endless possibility. Some people hide that well. But after a certain age, almost everyone is carrying something like that around, I suppose.
When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.
I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.
To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.
I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.
I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.