11-21-2018, 02:36 PM
(11-20-2018, 02:22 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Exactly how I feel. When I went back to my niece's funeral (only 34 and if the Dr had listened to her, she'd be alive today), everybody kept saying, "Sorry for your loss" I actually wanted to knock the next SOB out that said that to me! I know they were just being nice, but it just grated on me, still does.
Nobody knows what to say if they aren't close with the person they are talking to, so instead of standing there in awkward silence they say something benign like that.
"They are in a better place" is a bad thing to say even though it's not meant that way. You could have the most devout religious person in the world, but they don't want to hear that their loved one is some place better than right there with them.
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