Natasha Richardson
Another loss. Another grieving family. More questions. Why? How? How could someone be lucid and conscious and then sink into unresponsiveness and die? We asked those same questions...
As I read Natasha Richardson's story, too much of it rang true to me. I extend my heart to this family, who has the further complication of being celebrities, which means they will be nagged, followed and not able to grieve privately. At least my grief can come and go in waves and the only person writing about it is me, not the hound dog press...that is another one of those invasions that just seems, well, so wrong. And believe me, death invites vulchers.
Reading between the lines it sounds like she had the same kind of head injury as my dad; so pointless, so senseless, and a freak accident. But hers is even more freakish than my dad's...how can one fall on a beginner slope and get up and be fine and then be dead just a few days later? I can't tell you how many people have said to me, "But I just say your dad, spoke to him, laughed with him the day before (or any variation thereof up to about three weeks before)." Both people so talented and full of life, leaving family behind. Such loss, such tragedy.
Yet through it all light can still shine.
Continue to love and live passionately. These are choices. Let us choose the way of life.
As I read Natasha Richardson's story, too much of it rang true to me. I extend my heart to this family, who has the further complication of being celebrities, which means they will be nagged, followed and not able to grieve privately. At least my grief can come and go in waves and the only person writing about it is me, not the hound dog press...that is another one of those invasions that just seems, well, so wrong. And believe me, death invites vulchers.
Reading between the lines it sounds like she had the same kind of head injury as my dad; so pointless, so senseless, and a freak accident. But hers is even more freakish than my dad's...how can one fall on a beginner slope and get up and be fine and then be dead just a few days later? I can't tell you how many people have said to me, "But I just say your dad, spoke to him, laughed with him the day before (or any variation thereof up to about three weeks before)." Both people so talented and full of life, leaving family behind. Such loss, such tragedy.
Yet through it all light can still shine.
Continue to love and live passionately. These are choices. Let us choose the way of life.
Labels: closed head injury, grief, Natasha Richardson, Richard Ely
posted by www.kathypride.com at
7:56 AM
1 Comments:
I know....my husband and I said to ourselves, "She will be dead within days." And we thought of you and your dad...soooo sad.
But you know. When it's my time, though it's SO hard on the family, I don't want to go slowly and painfully. I want it to be relatively quick...maybe not instantly...but definitely not long either... (you listening God?)
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