Grieving

Funerals, memorial services, grieving . . . all of these are intensely personal experiences that must be dealt with in the way most meaningful to those who are most affected.

It is hard enough to face the loss of someone you love deeply without having to deal with those people who don't understand.

This is not the time to squeeze your way into the mourners and make it all about you.

If you have to ask who is going before you decide then perhaps the kindest thing you can do is stay home.

The people who love the deepest are not thinking about who stepped on whose toes, or whose feelings might be offended by someone else's presence.

They are just trying to get through the best way they know how by loving those left behind and supporting each other.