"One Day Nearer to Dying..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Remember how I said it was going to kill me if anybody at Stoneybridge died?

Well.

Harry did, yesterday.

He was this sweet old fellow who's Charlie's best friend, and I knew he'd gone to the hospital a few days ago, but I thought they brought him back because his condition had definitely improved, so he didn't have to stay there. He's been with us so long that his room is pretty much his, and--oh, gah. I didn't even know him all that well.

I feel sad. Very, very sad.

I wonder if I should go to the funeral.

Comments

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with not seeing her body. Corpses are very weird things. Trust me. I was about your age when my last grandparent died, and we hadn't been close in years (in fact, I was bitter about having to attend the funeral and I still haven't entirely forgiven her for being two-faced), but I cried for half an hour when my mother told me she had died. And let me tell you, they cake on the makeup to try to make a corpse not look like a corpse, and it's really stiff because of the blood replacement, and it's cold from the refrigeration, and it's just generally weird. Corpses are not people. And funerals have to happen too early to take into account the grief process for most people, so in a lot of ways, they don't fill their intended function. You shouldn't feel weird if you're not past something just because the funeral is over.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Well, this wasn't a viewing. This was actually just a 'she-died-two-minutes-ago-wanna-come-see?' thing, technically, and I was still in shock from having found out that she had, in fact, died two minutes ago, so it was a little weird.

And that makes sense about funerals. Thank you.