Hi Kacy, great story and I'm sorry for your lost. It's very sad to lose someone close to you and uusaully we tend to turn our backs from God in a time of a tragedy like death. Those deaths that take place suddenly and unexpectingly are the must difficult to grief. I’m glad that you regained your faith after
It took hours for the ambulance to get there. She had now been in the hospital for 2 weeks, but she had not woken up yet. As her twins, husband, family and friends waited for the news, most of them were still dealing with the fact that she could be dead in her early age of 38. One day while everyone was waiting the doctors came out and said that she stopped breathing and there was nothing they could do, she was dead. As everyone came to a sudden realization that she was really REALLY gone, her husband didn't want to except it. Finally, he excepted it and everyone was heartbroken at this loss. Lastly, I would like to thank everyone for coming here today to remember our beloved friend we have lost, but now we can say she is with her father, Jesus, and every member she has ever
Five days had passed this time since anyone had heard from my mother. I remember praying to God to protect her from harm and for me to find her. The next day she showed up, but not in the way we had hoped. One morning as I was getting ready for school my sophomore year in high school, my phone rang to the voice of my stepfather. My stepfather had told me he heard a call come over the dispatch scanner at his work and my mother’s name was mentioned. The sheriff had informed my stepfather that my mother had been involved in an accident. My stepfather asked me to go to the emergency room and see what condition my mother was in because he lived a half hour away from the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital I found my mother cut out of her clothes, covered in her own urine, massive amounts of blood all over her body, and lying lifeless on life support on the table. At this point, no one knew whether my mother would be okay. My mother had bleeding on the brain as well as a tear in her shoulder, a shattered face, and a chest tube draining fluid from her lung which had collapsed. All I could do was pray! My mother’s life was in God’s hands now. Three days later she woke
Pulling up at the hospital; I had no idea what I was about to endure for the first time. I walked to the end of the hall to see someone that meant so much to me laying there lifeless. I stood at the foot of his hospital bed; for a moment it seemed as if time had frozen. I was there with one other person when two nurses walked in to tell me “we see no signs of improvement, we are going to pull the plug”. I stood there and watched my best friend breath his last breath. When they allowed me to go back into the room, I immediately checked to see if he was still breathing. I walked to his side, rested my hand on his cold shoulder and prayed to God that this wasn’t real. Later flowers were piled up in the worst way and no one knew what to say or if they should speak at all. This amazing person was buried and I blamed God for the loss of his life and the physical pain that flooded my body. I couldn’t accept what had happened and told myself that it wasn’t real. I was so angry at God for making me go through this that I had lost all faith in him. My relationship with God was so amazing before I experienced this that I couldn’t understand why he would want this for me. I continued to question everything that I had ever known that I didn’t know what to believe in
Tyler and I were the closest in age, so when we lost Tommy we really leaned on each other to help each other cope. As kids we were best friends, so when I got that call informing me that my best friend had just been called home to God I didn’t know how to feel. I just kept insisting that it wasn’t real and I will never forget begging my dad to tell me it wasn’t real, even though I knew it was. I felt the only thing I could do was lay there on the floor and just beg God for both of them back. I didn’t, and still don’t understand why they were taken so early, but I know in my heart that they’re no longer suffering and at ease with
Kacy Briggs was kidnapped on march 3rd 2016. The day after there were signs printed with “MISSING”, and “UNKNOWN.” I wish I was there to help you, I wanted to be there and save you… but I couldn’t find you. But after all this time you were right under my nose. And I had no clue.Im ready for the truth to come out what about you Kacy. Oh and it’s Hailey, Hailey Briggs.
I used to watch the news and hear about people involved in car wrecks every day. The thing is, I never could have imagined it could happen to me or worse, someone who meant a lot to me. My father, David Stewart on October 8th had been on the opposite end of a car accident with a drunk driver. I don't remember much about that tragic day. I do remember family members rushing into our house to comfort each other and not yet understanding why. Before the night had ended my older sister had gave me the news. I was only in the third grade, how was an eight year old expected to process news like that? That night I laid in my bed, wiping away endless tears of concern and confusion. I prayed countless times that night. With prayers of hope that my
Death is an ending that everyone has to endure. I was in the concrete operations stage of cognitive development when I have had encountered my papa’s and uncle’s death. Unlike the story when listened to when the young boy was in the pre-operations, I fully understood the concept of death (Hill). When I was in 7th grade, I lost my papa in a week span of developing Emphyasema. When I was that age, I understood that my papa was sick and that his wishes were to never be on life support. My family followed his wishes. I remember there being our priest being there but I was not sure why he would be there since my papa did not believe in going to church. I noticed many relationships among my family change after my papa’s death. I remember seeing how
I can recall the day it happened, like it was yesterday, the air had a certain emptiness to it. It felt cold, barren, but it just felt like any normal rough day, where everything would not go your way. I arrived home from hockey practice like I do every Thursday with my father and was ready to lay down before I did my homework. Then we got the call and we bolted to the emergency room at Mercy Hospital. The nurse took us into a waiting room and we heard the heartbreaking news from the physician and the room went still. It was not a typical quiet but so quiet that you could almost hear your heart pounding out of your chest. When we saw my Mother, and we shockingly gazed what the car crash did to her it was a completely eye-opening. This could not be your Mother; that is all
These experiences could very much so help you cope with the death of Julia. I know this is going to be hard for you since you are not religious but turning to religion in a crisis can really change the way you perceive life. I’m not telling you to attend church every Sunday or to read to bible front to back
I thought to myself this can’t be real he is fine. I remember giving myself a hard time because I didn’t tell him goodbye at Rend Lake. After my dad told me the news I started bawling and my mom was talking to my dad about Daniel. I’m pretty sure he was going either to or from a friend’s house and his friend who was driving, saw something in the road and swerved into the lane next to her where a truck hit them, killing Daniel and his friend who was in the back seat on impact. The driver was taken to the hospital but is still alive. Then my dad talked to me about the funeral and he left. I remember how hard it was to go to his funeral and crying about his death for a while after he died. Even now sometimes it is still hard to accept. I still find myself wondering how differently my family’s and my own life would be if he were still here today.
The day of the funeral was crushing. I got dressed in my dress and got my hair braided. My family and I drove to the funeral home. I started crying as soon as I got out of the car. I walked into the place. Most of my family was already there. I could tell they had been/ were crying. Honestly I didn't want to believe this was happening. I wished that this was just a dream. The family stood up at the casket. I looked into the casket I looked at my mammy she looked beautiful. Memories flashed through my mind. I was forever gong to miss her I still do. People I didn't know were coming up to us saying how sorry they were. after a while we all sat down. The preacher was up at the podium saying how great mammy was. After the funeral we drove to the graveyard were it continued there. The preacher talked some
As I got my brother, I know something was up because we never had family meetings. Also, my mom looked dreadful. This was also the first time I had ever felt scared. When we all were at the table our mom said, “ Kids, you know Maggie was old right?” We both nodded, so she could continue, now I know something was really inadequate, “ When I got to the vet today our veterinarian said that even if she gave Maggie the shot that she would just get worse but very slowly. So, I did what I had to do for Maggie. Kids, I had to put her down. She died in my arms.” I was initially crying because I loved Maggie. Mom said she had Maggie's ashes. But I could barely here because I was crying so hard. We also still have the ashes on the mantel. At the time a prayed a lot for god to bring her back to our family. I predicted at the time I was still in shock. I remember her, and I still miss her sometimes. But I know that she did not suffer that much. I also know that she is a better
Up until this moment, this first encounter with my grandmother’s death , my relationship with God has never been this broken. It took me seventeen years to realize the linguistic persecution that my grandmother had felt for two. Once I finally did, my self-identity completely changed. Therefore the time when I challenged a belief was when the death of my grandmother occurred. I challenged this belief that goes by the name of “Christianity”.I chose to challenge Christianity, because the bible says christ takes you through nothing you can not handle , the sorrow was too much to bear I had little to no time to prepare for such catastrophic event that happened in the wink of an eye literally . When I got the news that my grandmother had passed
In 2011, I loss my closest family member, my uncle, the most perfect father figure. The call was devastating. He had been battling cancer all of his life. One year it was gone and then back again. He was going through a war with his body, this illness. He was 47 when he passed. I never will understand why God will take the most joyous, heart felt, loving people. But I could never question God. It was simply his time. Now who would I look up too? That was my war. Watching my Uncle Ernie have to go to treatment after treatment was tiring not for only him but for me. When he was drained I felt drained, I fed from his energy. When my uncle passed I felt my world was over. I couldn 't believe it, I didn 't want to believe it. His war was over and my war had just started.
It all happened in an instant, one second he was so alive and the next all the life had rushed out of him, leaving his body an empty shell. The woman next to me began to cry. I looked around and noticed people all around me were crying. Wet, heavy tears fell down their faces in mourning for people they never knew. I do not think ever felt as close to a group of strangers as in that moment.