Sudden loss · $9 · 4-5 minutes
For the goodbye
there wasn't time for.
Sudden loss is different. You didn't get to prepare. Your last memory might be a totally ordinary one, which somehow makes it worse.
Tell us about them and we'll write a tribute that doesn't pretend there was a graceful ending to find peace with.
Example output
We lost Max yesterday morning. Yesterday morning we were fine. He was at the door wanting to go out at 6 am, the way he had been at the door wanting to go out at 6 am every single morning for eight years.
There is no thread to pull through this. There is no "it was his time." It was not his time. He was eight, and he was healthy, and he was happy, and now he is gone, and we did not get to say goodbye properly because we did not know we needed to.
What I want to say, in this room, today, is just: he was loved. He knew it. That has to be enough, because that's all we got to give him.
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