Community Chat

[occasionalrain]

There is nothing that can be done for those 20 children who died.

I'm concerned with those who survived, especially the siblings of the 20. I've seen interviews with some of the parents and while it's common for the deceased to become nicer, smarter, somehow larger than life then they ever were when they were alive, it has to affect the siblings left behind.

I saw the interview that Anderson Cooper did with Grace's parents and while I understand their feelings, I couldn't help but worry about her siblings. There is no way they could live up to Grace's memory or to not think, being children, that the parents would have preferred that they had died instead.

Giving them a gift seems wrong from a child's point of view, like a reward for losing their brother or sister.

Grace's parents went on and on about her and I can't blame them, I just though that I would not want to be their remaining child. At one point the mother said that Grace would lead their way or something like that. I thought that to be an unfortunate thing to say.

I went to school with a girl whose older brother had died and she seemed always to be trying to make up for the loss, afraid to say or do anything to upset her mother.