How do you handle death?

[Arkhangelsk]

I recently got the news of the death of one of my (not super-close) family members... I won't go into details, but title says it all. It's weird for me, I don't cry, I don't evoke any special emotion. All I feel is a big hole in my stomach, and I avoid making eye contact with anyone. Just hurts to see how sad they are. But I, I don't know why I don't cry, I just don't... Anyway, you?

 

[skitzo van]

I cried my ass off when my grandfather died, so yeah I cry it off.

 

[Clirck]

Seems like you din't now him very well and you can't feel sorry for people you didn't know. Well I couldn't cry at my great grandmothers funeral because she lived very far away and I only saw her once in my entire life.

 

[barryween]

That's how I have dealt with death. Thank god, only one family member (not close to me at all) has died, so I don't know how it feels all that much. But usually one something bad happens, that's how it is. This sounds bad, but sometimes with stuff that is more like "oh shit" than like, a death, I laugh. I try not to, because it seems inappropriate, but that is how my mind keeps me from crying. Sometimes it makes me look like a horrible person, but because of it I hardly ever cry.

 

[New Troll]

Even though I'm a very optimistic person, I also have issues with depression. I will become withdrawn and isolated, and though I'm not one to just openly cry, I am a leaky faucet ready to burst at any moment. I'm generally okay as long as there's nothing else messing with my emotions.

 

[chiggerwood]

I internalize it put it in the back of my head and wait for it to turn into a tumor that I can cut out. Not the best stragety trust me. I'm pretty screwed up in the emotions department.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Rage.
Then again, everything that effects me seems to boil down to pure incoherent wrath.

My Paternal Grandparents are pretty much dead to me anyway. Don't go there. It's a dark place with much more rage than you can imagine.

My Maternal ones are dead, I never knew them. Which is a shame, that's the only side of the family I get along with.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I don't know, It just another aspect of life. I'm not sure how I'll take it when its starring at me

 

[AmbrMerlinus]

I tend to forget that the dead person in question ever existed, because remembering them is too painful. Repress! Repress!

 

[Booze Zombie]

Oh, they died... that couldn't have felt nice.

But I'm still alive, so I guess I'll just keep on living.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

When my Gran died, I was very stoic I guess, among all of the tears and that at the burial, I just stood unphased >.>

 

[teisjm]

Just the other day, death came by and tried to jump me, i handled him with a FALCON PUNCH!
Then i t-bagged him while saying OMGWTFBBQPWNED u n00bish sack of bones, go back and harvest some fuckin grain, u r tEH suxx0rz

 

[historybuff]

I was really close to my grandmother and when she died, I couldn't cry either. I didn't until the actual funeral, during the service. And I when I felt the urge come on, I left the church and went outside and sat on a swing for awhile.

Some people just handle death better alone. It's not really weird or anything. But I guess that depends on your family too. Some families handle death together and some of them don't.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Seems like you din't now him very well and you can't feel sorry for people you didn't know. Well I couldn't cry at my great grandmothers funeral because she lived very far away and I only saw her once in my entire life.

But that's the thing. I did know him. Sure, we didn't meet very often, maybe once every three months or so, but still, it isn't like I wouldn't miss him. I've always been that way when it comes to depressing things. I don't cry, I just let it plant itself in my mind. It feels like a knife in the gut, though.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

I don't know. I haven't had anyone in my family die yet.

Though my (not close) uncle is having a series of tumors, so it's likely that I'll be going to a funeral soon.

I imagine myself not crying when a very close one of mine dies though, just rage, or grief.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I tend to forget that the dead person in question ever existed, because remembering them is too painful. Repress! Repress!

Same here, sort of. I try not to think of the person in question.

 

[ExplosionProofTaco]

I think "Better them than me" Then just forget about it.

 

[Wadders]

I feel very sad and down when I hear about it, cry like a ***** at the funeral, then man up and accept the fact that death is a part of life.

The loved ones I've lost are grandparents, so they had a good long life, which makes it easier to live with.

 

[Mozared]

I usually ignore it. I'm not too attached so most deaths don't bug me too seriously, luckily.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

I normally hold everything inside and only let it out in private. Last year I lost my granddad one month, my nan the next month and my dog of about ten years the month after that. I try not to think about it, which probably isn't healthy, but its the only way I can deal with it.