General advice for anyone facing death

[dipka]

Here’s another piece of writing by me which I’m hoping will be helpful to you all.

It’s a know fact right? ‘Everyone alive will die at some point’ Most expect they will be 70/80 years old before they get even close, however you can die at any age. Whether you die suddenly in an accident, suddenly from an illness or disease or when it was know that you were going to die or even another way again you will be ‘fine’ –you wont know your dead. But everyone else you knew, your families friends will be left to deal with their feelings alone.

Anyway, the way I it there is two types of death: sudden death and known death. Both have points that make them easier to deal with, and both have points that make them harder to deal with. I’m not going to say ‘XXX is harder than YYY’ because I feel they are equally hard, and often after experiencing death you are likely to say the way you experienced is harder whatever you thought before.

This is all about known death, one of the worst things you can hear is the line ‘you have a terminal illness, you have about 6 months’ (times may change, 6 months here is used as an example) weather its said to you, or about someone close it’s affects are devastating. You are then left knowing you either have only 6 months to live or in 6 months someone close will die. So, what do you do?

My advice for this is to ‘enjoy life’ it’s the last life someone will get, so make it the best it can possibly be. If its you who will die make sure you do all those dreams, we all have them. Whatever they are just do them. Take pictures, and leave them to loved ones. If you know someone who will die cherries these pictures forever after they do die and know that the person who died has died happy.
This is an advantage to knowing you will die, you can plan and prepare for it.

However, you could be filled with worry or dread for the entire 6 months, then with deep sadness afterwards. This is the negative side to knowing beforehand. Read what I have advised above and doing that will ensure that when you start grieving it is as easy as possible for you to overcome.


I again hope that this information is usefull to you and My thoughts go out to anyone who finds themselfes needing this information
dipka