The Death Of My Family - 921 Words

Death is one of those touchy subjects that no one likes to talk about. It is hard to talk about something that forces you to acknowledge the fact that your life can end unexpectedly at any point and time. You may be prepared to die, you may not. As a child I was not exposed to death all that much. I remember as a child hearing about family members dying but it did not affect me as much as it did my parents; I was young, I didn’t really know that many people in my family at the time where as my parents grew up with these people and had life experiences with them. The only people that I knew were my immediate family and my close extended family, which are my grandparents. So when I had my first real experience of the death of one of my close family members it was very intense. My first encounter with the death of a close loved one happened during my junior year in high school. I was only sixteen when my grandfather died. In 2014, he was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. 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