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  • 108 of 108 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Playgirl27

    1 Star With Angel wings She Flew Away................... 06/04/2006
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None see below.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages So many and with you for life......

    I felt it was time I wrote about my experiences with death and how I myself have and are coping now. The reason i decided to do it now is on the 16th of this month my daughter has been gone 7 years. My sister this year in october will have also been gone 7 years. I lost them both within 6 months of each other, I hope to see things differently myself and hopefully help others coping with the immense pain death brings. We are now casting our minds back to April 1999. After several miscarriages I finally had become pregnant again. My pregnancy was plagued with problems from the start but it never ... more
  • 105 of 105 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 micksheff

    Member since 18/07/2003

    Reviews written: 764

    1 Star Happy Birthday, Baby! Review with images 04/08/2006
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Having To Carry On Without Your Loved One

    There are times in everyone's life when for a brief moment we think about death. As we grow older we think about our Grandparents dying and then as we get older still we occasionally think about our own Parents dying, before pushing the dreadful thought to the back of our minds. From time to time we even think about our own death and our own immortality, but the death of a Partner is something that I had never even contemplated until earlier this year. I have decided to write about the subject of bereavement for my 350th Ciao review, and I know that it will be the hardest review that I will ... more
  • 33 of 33 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    pooliebaby

    1 Star carrying on with life is the best tribute to give 25/06/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages sometimes the pain is at an end

    Disadvantages Disadvantages too many to mention

    When I was a little girl my dad was my champion, my guide, the one who I turned to in times of need and the one who loved me unconditionally and repeatedly told me no matter what I did I would never lose him. I lost him. It has been five years since my dad died and there is not a day that goes by that I do no think about him. He may not always be in the forefront of my mind but he is there lurking in the recesses, ready to come out with a sharp anecdote or one of his unique pearls of wisdom. How I miss his voice and his humour. for you to get a better picture of him, let me start at the ... more
  • 42 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    lesleyanne2

    1 Star Live your life for them! 05/03/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too many too mention

    This is the first personal review I have written, so dont know if it will be any good, but I am speaking from my heart, and if it helps even one person come to terms with the loss of their loved one it will be worth it. MY STORY While I was growing up, my mum was my best friend. We shared everything and I told her everything. The thought of her ever not being there was inconceivable and I never thought it would happen. Then 5 years ago it did. The day started just like every other. My dad and I went to work, leaving her in bed having a lie in. As always, I took her up a cup of tea before I ... more
  • 31 of 31 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 x__Kelli__x

    Member since 21/09/2004

    Reviews written: 16

    1 Star I'm Loving An Angel Instead... 24/10/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Their pain has ended

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Yours has just begun

    At the age of 16 I've had to face one of the most painful, traumatic experiences anyone could ever have... losing someone close to you... This is hard for me to write as it's still something I'm sensetive about but if I can help someone with my experience, it's worth it. My Nan had always been there for me. When I was born she gave up her job to look after me so that my Mom didn't have to. Everyday I'd see her, we'd paint, sing, I'd help her with housework... she meant everything to me, I'd even call her "Nanny-Mom" as I saw her as some sort of second mother. As the years went on we regained ... more
  • 70 of 70 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 wardenblw431

    Member since 07/10/2002

    Reviews written: 180

    1 Star A TRAGIC LOSS 22/10/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The pain of losing someone can be unbearable,

    Losing a loved one is always painful and everyone has his or her own way of dealing with the grief. Last year was an awful time for me. In the space of 6 months I lost 2 close relatives in my family and both of my husbands’ grandmothers died within weeks of each other. It always seemed that there was a funeral to go to, and I had long since forgotten how to smile. As the months slowly crawled into each other, and my tears had started to dry, life dealt another sickening blow. My best friend Nicola phoned me one day for a chat and she seemed a long way from her normal cheery self. She had not ... more
  • 48 of 48 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    teacherofhooch

    3 Stars A journey in life. 29/06/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Perhaps you can indentify with this.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Make your own mind up

    I have been working for thirteen years to cleanse my self from the past losses and bereavements in my life. I suppose as we get older we need to clear all the cobwebs out of our minds. In my case I was tumbling over bricks for years and not understanding what it was all about, not understanding how and why things affected me the way they did. Not understanding my reactions to things and the guilt that I carried and still do over some things. This confused me in many ways and once I began this journey to sort out my feelings I had to stop every now and then, otherwise I would become ill. All ... more
  • 47 of 47 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    angiebabyqueen

    1 Star Coping With Death &Moving On In Life 26/03/2006
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages you become stronger at the end of everything and life becomes easier

    Disadvantages Disadvantages one of the hardest things in life to come to terms with and one of the worst things in life to have to deal with

    The thing with a death of a loved one or a close one is that it doesn't just affect the family; it effects how everyone treats the bereaving family. You can't make any inappropriate jokes and you feel as if you're treading on glass around them, you're always hearing I'm so sorry if you're that family member and eventually become sick of it. I've had two family members who were like best friends die and two other close members in my family die. I'm writing this now however, to refresh my memory of how I felt, and because a friend has just lost a close relative. I will split this advice 'column' ... more
  • 41 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 KarenUK

    Member since 08/07/2000

    Reviews written: 1125

    1 Star Saying Goodbye and Remembering... 16/03/2007
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Brings the family together

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Where do I start???

    In some ways, I am very lucky. Both my granddads and one great-granddad died in the 1970s, when I was too young to really understand. The next family death was an uncle in 1987, but he killed himself, which was slightly different and I felt mainly anger at him, for doing that to my aunt. I refused to go to the funeral. Then in 1998, my other uncle died, but I wasn't very close to him. So it wasn't until this year that I really lost a family member I adored. My Nanna turned 100 in January and all of us went up to Lincoln to see her on the actual day. We stayed a few days up there and also went ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 ICECOLD

    Member since 23/09/2003

    Reviews written: 61

    2 Stars picking your self up and starting over 27/09/2003
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Alters your perspectives on much

    Disadvantages Disadvantages so much pain and confusion

    I thought I knew a lot about emotional turmoil, as I had a very difficult childhood and suffered from Post Traumatic Stress as a result of it. I thought I had got everything sussed and was a person that could deal with anything life threw at me. However nothing that had gone before prepared me for dealing with the loss of my husband a few years ago. He was diagnosed with cancer in the January, and died on Fathers Day six months later, at the age of 40. I didn't, truthfully, grow up until then. During his illness (see op on Testicular Cancer) I coped well, (so I am told), but like a lot of ... more
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