Seeing the body in death and dreams

[hundun]

...to follow up on the last post

Most of the other deaths in my life were expected The second death was my paternal grandmonther, who'd been fighting with cancer, and so her death was no surprise. I don't remember why my mom went to the funeral and not myself. My Paternal grandfather died suddenly, but I made the trip and saw his body. My maternal

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[estrellada]

It does help to see it. I don't know if that would have helped the nightmare.

Er, greetings from someone else who feels dislocated about a national holiday.

[hundun]

There was a shrine all over the bus stop at Granville Park - covered in notes to Dads present and past.

[darthmaus]

Could also be related to suicide, or your young age at the time, or any other particularly traumatic aspects of the whole experience - reactions to the death of a loved one are pretty varied and unpredictable.

In my last year of high school, a very good friend of mine killed himself - I saw the body, and still kept "seeing" him all over the place for years, waking and in dreams.