h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Having had more experience with death and bereavement than i would like, along with everyone else on the planet, i have came to realise that there is no way to predict or control how you are going to react. What i have learnt is that the worst thing you can do is to bottle things up. My mother died when i was 16, which left my father and my brother, each one of us reacted in different ways. But the same mistake that all of us made was not to talk about how we felt, we kept ourselves to ourselves pretending that nothing happened and tried to be strong in front of each other. From that time we kind of split apart, and it wasn't until my father died nine years later that me and me brother started to talk and now we are really close. I can't help but regret that we never really shared our grief as a family, when we had the chance.