My Experience Of Bereavement Reviews

I know this is a really sensitive subject especially to people who have experienced bereavement, I just think its something that we should be able to talk about without people feeling uncomfortable or crossing the road when they see you coming. My experience of bereavement happened nearly 2 years ago now and its something I never want ...  Read the complete review

I apologise in advance for this article and how rambling and thoughtful it may become but i am sat at work and just need a sounding board to get this out. This isnt about the loss of a family member or even a very close friend but instead about a lovely lovely ex colleague who had his life snuffed out by a careless horrible driver while doing ...  Read the complete review

I have been toying with writing this for a few days and to be quite honest, I'm still not one hundred percent sure I'll even press the Submit button at the end. Even thinking about writing it my heart is pounding and I feel ever so slightly sick. I'm not the greatest writer in the world and I'm not entirely sure that the words I write can entirely ...  Read the complete review

Death, like taxes, is inevitable. You cannot go through life without losing friends and family and hopefully you will be older when it truly affects you but sadly the grim reaper is a bit like life, and isn't fair, so you can be hit by it at any stage in your life. Bereavement first hit me when I was 13 when my papa died. Children ...  Read the complete review

I will start by apologising for what may come across as being a very selfish article. Actually, No, I won't apologise - the title is "My Experience of Bereavement" so that is what you will get.... We are now in the second half of January - and that means that we are almost in February, which is the month in which I lost my ...  Read the complete review

I have read a few of the bereavement reviews on here and all of them come from the heart and its good to know that in times when you have lost someone whether to disease or in an accident or whatever that there are people you can talk to even if you have never met them before and sometimes its better that you dont actually know these ...  Read the complete review

I was 7 when my mum died, my brother was 3, she was only 41. It was breast cancer that killed her. I still to this day wonder how my father managed on his own for the time that he did.( he remarried in 1990-mum died in 1988) I remember him telling me a friend gave him a bittle of brandy as a kind of condolence gift and he said that he ...  Read the complete review

This one is from the guts, and it's rare that I'm this open even with those close to me, let alone on a public website. There is only one reason why I'm sharing this experience here; that is just to reach as many people as I can, with the message.....please, always make up your arguments before you go to work, go to bed, even go to the ...  Read the complete review

You could say I had always been quite lucky in the fact that I had never lost anyone close to me, I grew up with both sets of Granparents and I always took for granted that they would always be there. Sadly the realisation that this is not the case hit me head on in 2005. My Nana was a very special lady and throughout my life I ...  Read the complete review

Well, i've just lost my mum on Sunday 13th at 11.45 pm ish and to say i'm numb is an understatement. This wasn't sudden but things have a bad habit of building up, this is a tale with a moral at the end. When i was 10 I was always going round the corner shop to get 40 or 80 Silk Cut/B&H whatever the sticks of death were in favour at the time, ...  Read the complete review

Or - not all funeral services require a coffin... My father died of lung cancer in 1996 - I still miss him, every day. Still, life goes on, and many situations, including loss, have their more surreal, if not funny side. You see, my father asked to be cremated, and have his ashes scattered through what is truly the butt-hole ...  Read the complete review

In some ways, I am very lucky. Both my granddads and one great-granddad died in the 1970s, when I was too young to really understand. The next family death was an uncle in 1987, but he killed himself, which was slightly different and I felt mainly anger at him, for doing that to my aunt. I refused to go to the funeral. Then in 1998, my other uncle ...  Read the complete review

BEREAVEMENT In all of our lives, the only certainty for all of us is that one day we will die. It always seems strange to me that we, in western civilization, hide it under the carpet, like it is an embarrassment, and when we really experience it, there is no one to help. There are professionals of course, but they are there mostly to ...  Read the complete review

Within the space of eight months I had lost a parent, a partner and my dog, in that order. A dreadful time but I have now come through it but would like to ensure other people receive more support when they lose a loved one. When my beloved mother died she was in hospital after a long illness and the staff were wonderful ...  Read the complete review

Today is the anniversary of my late mother’s birthday; she would have been 83 years old today but she died on the 27th May 2003 of pneumonia following two massive strokes that first robbed her of her movement and finally robbed her of her speech. She had been ill for a long time before her first stroke, life had been hard on her and after my dad ...  Read the complete review

On Sunday 7th October 2001, 11year old Joseph Stone died. Joseph lived a “normal” life. “Normal” in that he had asthma, which today is so common as to seem normal. His asthma did not seem to affect his way of life. He was a live wire, as strong as an ox and he participated whole-heartedly in his favourite sport, football. ...  Read the complete review

I have said goodbye to Thomas three times now. Once when I heard he had gone. Then again, on the day he was cremated and then again on the day that handfull of ashes were taken by a current of water. Who was Thomas? Thomas was and will always be my God Son. Thomas was and will always be every curly haired little boy I see in ...  Read the complete review

Losing a loved one is always painful and everyone has his or her own way of dealing with the grief. Last year was an awful time for me. In the space of 6 months I lost 2 close relatives in my family and both of my husbands’ grandmothers died within weeks of each other. It always seemed that there was a funeral to go to, and I had long since ...  Read the complete review

Maybe one of the golden rules on these sites should be to only post when you are sober. Thing is, I'm feeling a little bit reflective albeit this has been a strange week. I gets back of me hols last Friday night and the phone call that wakes me on Saturday am is my bro telling me my grandmother has died suddenly. Well, she had cancer but it ...  Read the complete review

This is going to be a long op, so if you know you won?t stay the course, you?d best leave now?.. My mum was diagnosed with leukaemia in April 1994, (as those of you who are familiar with my ops will already know). Here is my story of how I coped with my bereavement. I was eight months pregnant with my first child when my ...  Read the complete review