re: No parent should have to bury their kid.

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my grandfather has outlived 3 of his 9 kids and my grandmother who passed away 25 years ago.

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i imagine burying a 6yo child is harder than burying a 60yo child. But im sure none are easy

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I found out that a child at my kids school had passed away unexpectedly over the weekend.

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Well what happened? You were just going to sit on this ?

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Well what happened?

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They were involved in an accident. I'm intentionally being vague. Sorry.

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Realized you were wasting your life bringing yourself down to his level and he'd beat you with experience?

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Imagine using a dead kid as an opportunity to berate an internet poster. Geez

Praying for that family. Terrible stuff

The idea almost brings me to tears. It doens change if they are adults, either, though it does feel worse if they are still kids. My mom buried two of her children, though they were both adults in their 60s (my twin sisters, who died two years apart) my mom was in her 80s. She told my little sister she didn't think she could bury any more of her children. She passed away just 3 months before my brother died. I am glad she did not have to bear that.

That’s terrible. Fortunately, the last 100 years is the first time in human history that burying a child is the exception and not the rule. Still is heartbreaking for that family.

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Don’t know how he handled that.

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Man that’s brutal. My guess is you were his reason to get up everyday.

I went to the funeral for a cousin of my wife. The deceased was recently out of college, successful, full of life, smart, etc. and died very tragically at the hands of someone else.

At the funeral, there were hundreds of people and of course the family of the deceased was greeting as many people as they could and as I would imagine at times you just become numb to who you're talking to, what you're saying, etc and probably just say the same thing over and over.

As I was standing next to my father in law the father of the young man that lost his life came over to tell us hello. What he said was nothing new but hearing him say it, hearing how he said it, hearing who he said it to is something that will not soon leave me.

He simply said, "It's not supposed to be like this. We're not supposed to bury our kids."

It was nothing new in content but the context, moment and sincerity offered something new in context that as a father myself, I hope I never EVER have to feel to know it to be true.

Damn dude, that got me. Hope you all are doing better.