My First Experience With The Death Of My Grandfather

My first experience with the death of someone close to me was the death of my grandfather, James Carroll Hearn. James Hearn, or Grandpa, passed away at the age of 78 due to leukemia. Although his was my first experience of death of someone close to me, I have since lost many other people. It was September 22, 2010, and the temperature was lower than normal and the air felt crisp. I remember this day because it was my twelfth birthday and I had just started middle school about a month before. I got the usual birthday cards with money ranging in value from 10 to 20 dollars. Except for one card I had received at the time had a very large amount of 50 dollars. I read through the card and found out that my grandpa had sent it. Normally he gave …show more content…
I found out that my best friend, Ja, from 3rd-5th grade had passed away from cancer. I can’t remember what form of cancer it was, but at the time It didn’t matter. I knew in third grade that he had cancer, but that didn’t stop us from being friends. Ja didn’t return to school after the 5th grade year, even though he still lived in town. I made new friends and just went on with life, still wondering sometimes what happened to him. Then I found out in 7th grade what had happened to him. He died from his cancer that he had fought for so long, so it was almost expected that he wasn’t going to make it. It was weird at the funeral; the casket looked too big for his small body. I was also the only white person in the whole church that day, which almost seemed comical, and being the comical person that Ja was, he probably thought it was funny …show more content…
I hope that I won’t experience more deaths of loved ones, but I know that probably won’t be the case. The best thing to do is just to keep on going loving the people who are still alive and living life to the fullest because you never know when your time is