Post 7

“How do you tell someone that their child is dead?” a quote from Into the Wild, from the mouth of McCandless’s older step brother, Sam. That sentence really pulled on my heart strings, because how do you answer that question? It is truly difficult to tell parents that their child is dead, assuming that the parents did love their child. It immediately reminded me of when my friend, Rebeca, died in 2008. I visualized her parents faces when they found out that their twelve year old daughter had died. Her mother, Mimi, had the saddest face I had ever seen. The ends of her mouth just drooped and her eyes were sunken and red from all of the tears. Her father, Nelson, had face that was not readable. It was stiff, like the face of one of those soldiers at Buckingham Palace in London, England. My mother and I spoke to Nelson right after Rebeca left the world. He was so strong, not letting on how sad and depressed he truly was. Nelson gave an explanation as to why he was being so straight-faced, “I know that when I die and I go to Heaven, GOD will have a room prepared for me to just let out all of the feelings I have from this.” I believe it. Mimi was inconsolable, just as were most people when they found out that Rebeca died. The last I heard of her, she was having immense difficulties. She continually forgot that Rebeca had died, and when she remembered it was just a repeat of her worst nightmare. She left Rebeca’s bedroom untouched. Everything in her room is just as Rebeca left it the morning her tragic accident happened. I cannot imagine how painful it is too lose a loved child, it is a nightmare.