Personal Narrative: The Loss Of One's Life

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One of the hardest concepts we as humans have to deal with is death. The loss of someone’s life has far more implications than just losing that person physically. This means that we are no longer able to enjoy their company, talk to them on an interpersonal level, and simply lose the ability to interact. Every person at some point in their life has to experience a loss of someone who they hold dear to them, which can be a major turning point in how they view the outside world. An event that forever changed my view on the world was when my great grandmother passed away because of my age, how unexpected it was, as well as being the first death within my family that I had ever experienced. fourteen years old was the age at which I first experienced the five stages of grief, the first of which being denial. It had already been a pretty demanding and tiresome day, and losing the first baseball game of the season by one home-run did not put me in the best of moods. In addition to this, I had no prior knowledge to the state of health my great grandmother was in, which resulted in being completely caught off guard, and was ultimately dumbfounded by what I was hearing.
I came home around 7:00 PM to find my mother staring intently at her
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Losing a loved one is always a difficult occurrence, but the first is always the hardest. It is one of life’s biggest reality checks; making one truly understand how fragile life is. However, as stated, it is a lesson that teaches us to enjoy every moment we have with the people we care the most about. It helped me understand how valuable family is, and that the moments we spend together are invaluable. Unfortunately, I have since experienced a passing in the family. My uncle passed away after a lengthy bout with cancer. As hurt as I was, I was able to remember how to focus more on the wonderful time we spent together than his untimely

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