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Who Would You Be
The Question We Ask When Someone Dies To Young
We have lost several members of my High school Graduating Class, a couple even before we graduated and the question always is what would they be? A question Kenny Chesney touches on in his song, Who You’d Be Today!
Loosing someone we love is always hard, but when we loose someone we love at a young age, the pain is harder, the questions I think linger a little longer, and because the person is young we generally try to make sense of it. We grieve over our losses of course, but that grief becomes compounded by youth.
Grief is something that can be measured in the number of tears we cry, or even on how long we grieve for, because grief is not measurable and it’s ever changing. When we loose someone young though we are often reminded how short and fragile life is.
In an earlier story, I wrote about a middle school classmate who jumped the fence and died trying to…
