How do you deal with grief? You cry, you cuss, you go kind of crazy for a while. You feel hollow or like ashes inside. But eventually, it fades. It never really goes away. I still mourn my Mother. It's been more than 20 years. But life goes on and we survive. New people come into your life and you go on.

It's kind of funny- my Mom was abusive, bipolar and a real bitch at times, but I mourn her loss more than I mourned my Dad's! I was always "my Father's daughter" -I look like him, act like him, loved him dearly, but it was Mom's suicide that really hit me hard. I "fell into a bottle" for several years. But like I said- we survive it all! Hang in there. It will eventually get better. - Granny