Title: Reflections on the Death of a Loved One
Headings: Reflections on the Death of a Loved One
Reflections on the Death of a Loved One
Why is the death of a loved one so painful an experience?
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The Author

Content: St. Paul says, "Those who love in this world weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice." ( cf. Romans 12:15). The effect of love is a profound identification of the lover with the beloved. The death of someone we intensely love is a death within ourselves. When someone we love dies, part of us dies with that person. Hence the suffering. Such is the suffering a parent experiences at the death of a child. One thinks of Mary's sorrow at the foot of the cross. The most painful of all experiences is personal death.