Quote From: esaubrowne My son, Isaac G. Browne, committed suicide on Sept. 17, 2005 @
approx. 1:30 AM. He was 24 1/2 years old, and had just finished
19 summer hours at a local community college, getting almost all A's.
He got just one B. The hardest thing, I have heard said, is
to lose an adult child. There is not time, usually, to "try
again." Also, the parent has invested many years into raising
them, and has had a long history of life experience with
them,. As with any death, particularly a child's death, it is
never the immediate circumstance alone - a suicide, a car accident, a
disease - there is always a story behind it. And that is what I
intend to do as soon as I can and I am ready, to tell Isaac's
story. Perhaps a compilation of stories would make a good book!!
I do understand your pain. It is tough to lose a child...at any age. I was thrown back at your statement that it is the hardest thing to lose an adult child. Not to be hurtful or to take away the grieving you need to do, but a child lost at any age is painful. There is no comparison of age when it comes to burying your child. I volunteered in the local newsletter for Compassionate Friends a few years after I lost my 15 year old son to an accident. A mother called me up crying, wanting to submit a memorium for her daughter. Her daughter was only 3 months old. She told me that her pain was more than mine because I knew my son. I heard his voice. I laughed with him, I sang with him, read to him, played ball with him...all things she will never do...so in everyones perspective, it hurts just as equally so at any age.
My thoughts go out to you as your grief is fresh. God bless Isaac in heaven and to all the parents who have lost a child at any age. It hurts no matter what! Helen
