How to Deal With Death?

[Professor Cool]

One of my best friends died when i was 14, and what i did is take all my grief into drawing. After a awhile it started to make things seemed somewhat ok again. I say, put your sorrow into some kind of medium. It helped for me.

[Jixby Phillips]

I kept a diary about my friend Ben after he killed himself. It was pretty glib and kind of mean. I guess that's how I dealt with it.

[mburbank]

Don't bother preparing because you can't. Your reaction will be your reaction. Whatever it is, try to relax into it, not fight it or deny it. The only way to honor the dead is to allow yourself to feel whatever you feel, odd, cold, bizarre, mean, drunk, affirmed, alive, whatever.

[Helm]

Grief is one of the most egotistical reactions man is capable of. So be prepared to be around losts of people that will be projecting this to a sickening degree. Be prepared that you will, too. Deny anyone the chance of discussing 'what a great guy/gal' they where and attend the bare minimum of assorted get togethers allowed by your lifestyle/religion/morality. Skip the funeral, if possible. If you don't, at least don't look in the coffin, if it's open and don't have sex afterwards. That's all.

[Rongi]

My grandpa's death never really hit me. He died a few months after 911 so I was a little shaken, but for some reason I keep thinking he's just with his family in Kentucky. Same goes with my mom's best friend, who was like an aunt to me. I just keep thinking she's still in Florida.

My uncle actually killed my grandpa. Not literally, but my grandpa was so dissapointed in him and his drug addiction that he couldn't take it anymore.

My grandma has a lump on her breast, but she says it'll go away. She wont go to the hospital. Typical italian grandma

[Dole]

"don't have sex afterwards" -I have heard several people say that grief is a natural; reaction to, and great way to deal with grief. Not that this will help James much.