Story archives - tag: "dying"

The Third Jane

Because they don't let children in the ICU, I colored in the waiting room while he told my mother, "She won't remember me."

tags: death hospital remembering grandfather dying last words [add]

2011-06-20 11:02:11 / Rating: 290.75 /

Lynda Austin

My sister completely skipped her birthday to die the next day on mine.

tags: death dying sisters irony [add]

2009-10-26 16:16:21 / Rating: 282.75 /

never the same

I watched her tiny tummy sucking in, her skin pulling tight against her ribs, her hand involuntarily closing on my index finger as she struggled for every breath, and I thought, "One day, is one day too much to ask?"

tags: baby birth sick dying father dad daddy hospital serious drama doctor nurse emergency funeral death [add]

2008-12-22 15:51:17 / Rating: 703.75 /

Aurelia

I know you squeezed my hand back when you were in that coma.

tags: death dying [add]

2008-08-07 17:31:19 / Rating: 528 /

Hipster

If you've never seen your friend's baby girl wave goodbye to her daddy as his casket leaves the funeral, I want to be you.

tags: sad death dying loss lossing a friend bad memories [add]

2008-04-02 13:49:34 / Rating: 892 /