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hy does heaven need you more than I do? Grief! I had my share of it, and it’s terrifying, horrible and never easy. When you lose your cousin and are trying to live with the fact that you will never see him again, and deal with the truth that he’s gone, like gone, gone… then all of a sudden you lose your best friend in a motorcycle accident, and a couple of years later you lose your mother. You tell me how to make sense of all this, and I will tell you how I survive my nights and my nightmares. Death is a tragedy that remains eternally. It’s not like you will wake up one day, and you see their faces again, and to be honest,
it never gets easier, but you learn to live with the pain of losing them. Everyone deals with grief; differently. I lived in denial for so long, and I wasn’t that lucky person who reached acceptance. It’s alright though because one day I will be okay. Bassem: 34 years old After Mom was gone, I was meeting with a friend who’d lost her father years earlier. Commiserating, we wondered if it was less horrible losing someone suddenly and quickly like she had, or facing an impending loss for months or years, as in my case. I’d grieved my mother long before she was gone. Hers was a long, drawn-out disease, and while she fought bravely, it was a losing
