Just seen the saddest thing.........

[fifitot]

Not sure where to post this but wanted to share it......not sure why really but just to somehow mark that I had seen something so sad and to think about the parents...

I stopped at a roundabout in the car and saw what to all intents and purposes looked like Cinderella's carriage. 4 horses with silver headresses and feathers, 2 drivers and a glass carriage full of flowers. It was snowing yesterday and it al looked so magical...but then when it went round the roundabout I saw a tiny white coffin in the back. Obviously on it's way to the funeral.

God I could hardly breathe for the tears. The poor child and their parents.

What a heartbreaking thing.

ouch

I would have been a mess.

It's so wrong for a child to die before parents

Oh goodness, how sad, I'd have been weeping too.

Oh god, how awful, I would have been in floods of tears too

and poor you fifitot, it must have knocked you sideways

that is heartbreaking

oh god thats so sad I've just welled up. Those poor parents. What a beautiful tribute to their child.

God, and I bawled my eyes out yesterday watching the funeral procession of those two boys who died in Afghanistan stopping a suicide bomber from blowing up a marketplace.

One of those boys was only 18 years old!

When I first saw the hearse I was thinking of my DD who would have seen it as a princess coach - then I saw the coffin. Makes you want to run and give your kids a big hug doesn't it?

I saw that on the news, Expat, wasn't the 18yr old only there for 2 weeks?

I cannot even begin to imagine how a Mother would cope with burying her child. Makes my heart ache.

Fifitot, hope your DD enjoyed her big hug.

that is so sad, I would have been in bits if I'd seen it too. Poor parents...

Too hard to imagine

so sad, feeling sad thinking about it

Something like that would stick for a long time, how sad for those parents.

a family friend told me the other day that her neice's 14 month old DD had passed away on friday evening of meningitis and her funeral is tomorrow

it is so heart wrenching to see babies and children dying before their parents

Actually, the saddest funeral I went to was that of my friend and colleague, Candice Kim.

Candice, the child of Korean immigrants, was a first generation American who was killed by a repeat drunk driver along with her niece, Denise, when she was 21 years old and Denise was 18.

A few months before, their aunt and uncle had been murdered at work in a robbery.

The wails of her mother will haunt me to the grave.

expat

She followed me round in the Coach outlet store. I was hemming and hawing about buying a bag for my makeup.

She picked it up and would put it in front of her face, and sneak up and say, 'Oh, live a little! Just buy me!' or 'Take me home! I am so worth it.'

Haahaa. You couldn't resist Candice's smile or her big brown eyes.

I still have that bag now.

There is no way I will part with it, no matter how battered it gets.

We went, a group of 5, to clear out her apartment, so her family would not have to.

And grown men were so racked with sobs they were being sick.

Two of us went to return her books. She was killed a week before the first semester of her last year of university, the first in her family to ever get an education past the age of 10.

Oh, that funeral.