Comments on: I’ve Seen Dead People

By: rootless

rootless — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:37:02 +0000

Lovely essay. My mom loves fried fish, too.

And thanks for dropping by my blog and commenting.

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:44:08 +0000

I remember my parents taking me to the funeral home at a very young age..mainly for visitation of church members who were far removed from me. I just associated going to OD White & Sons as a place where they still have 5 cent cokes, of which I asked for every time we went. But, I do remember seeing the bodies in the casket and having my Mom explain it all to me.

Some people may feel like that’s not a place for a young tender child to go, but I will say, when I had to say good-bye to my Mom when she passed from this world to her Heavenly home, it was still not something I wanted to face, but she sure had prepared me to face it.

By: tiffanytaylor

tiffanytaylor — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:16:26 +0000

I was with my dad about half an hour before he died. Then I went home (next door); the friend who was with my mom called to see that he was gone. I then experienced a prolonged mental struggle over whether to “say goodbye” to the body of my father. Maybe I should have thought it out long before; but it hadn’t occurred to me. In the end, I didn’t choose to see him when he was dead. I already have a huge store of horrific memories from the months when he was dying; I didn’t need to add one more. (Actually, I got one anyway: I was downstairs in the house, and heard the men carry him out — it was overwhelmingly devastating.)

I expect that I’m severely lacking in a healthy mental ability to deal with death. Heck, I can’t even deal with the dead squirrels my dogs regularly deliver to the door. Maybe as I get older I’ll develop a better coping mechanism.