re: What was the worst news you ever had to break to someone?

Your mom has passed x 3
Your dad has passed.
Your daughter has passed x2

My wife had to tell my sister that our dad had committed suicide. Never forget that night.

Had to tell my grandmother that her sister passed away. That’s a cry I’ll never forget.

Had to tell my mother and sister that my dad passed away in the emergency room with 2 doctors and 4 nurses trying desperately to keep him alive. Massive heart attack at 65 years old. They were on their way to the hospital when I reached them. Then had to go home and tell my 14 year old son who was the apple of my dad’s eye.

I have been blessed not have to share anything to bad.

My poor mom had to tell me that my dad passed away, and struggle to explain what suicide was to an 10 year old boy who loved his daddy.

Not break the news to, but when I was a security supervisor at a middle TN hospital, I had an experience I’ve never forgotten.
A very young Asian student at MTSU, died in a single car wreck on I-24. We kept her body in the morgue until her family could fly here. I had to hand her belongings to her parents, and I was so upset that I wasn’t able to speak their language.
I know they knew I was trying to offer condolences, but it still always bothered me that I couldn’t speak to them. I just kept imagining how horrific that was for them to lose their daughter in a foreign country.

Had to tell a friend that another friend had committed suicide.
Broke my mom’s death to other family members.

Way too much crap when I worked as a therapist.

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What was the worst news you ever had to break to someone?

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In a moment of clarity that my Saint of grandmother did, in fact, have Alzheimer's.

She asked me very directly. I might have made the wrong choice to answer truthfully. If I was in her shoes, I think I'd want to know if only for a fleeting moment.

Told my grandmother that my grandfather had died. One of the worst moments of my life, loved those two so much.