Death is merely a new chapter

Dear June

I lost my mother nearly 22 years ago.

I then lost my father 12 years later and my older brother passed away eight years on from that.

I wish I could have done more as I never had the chance to say goodbye to any of them. Are they reunited?

Iain, Hamilton. June Says

I am sure we have all undergone extremely busy periods in our jobs or family life, when we have found ourselves so wrapped up in what was going on that we didn’t take the time to look in on family members as often as we should.

Their love was always there for us and it’s not until that love is no longer a part of our lives that we truly understand how valuable and irreplaceable it was.

We then undergo feelings of guilt and chastise ourselves for missing numerous opportunities when we could have visited or spent some quality time with those no longer with us.

These feelings are very normal and we have all experienced similar thoughts after a loved one has passed away.

Your family will be safely reunited and each one in turn would have been met and greeted by those familiar smiling faces, filled with love and compassion, that they at one time thought they would never see again.

There was no need for goodbyes because, in time, each and every one of us will realise that death is not the end, but rather it is merely the beginning of a new chapter.