where did you get your guide to dealing with bereavement joe it would seem to be worthless.
I have not seen anywhere in this thread anything that would enable you guess at Ed's relationship with his friend or his sense of loss. You have sought to justify your earlier disgraceful remarks by claiming your loss was more significant than Ed's and that you have been able to deal with it and move on. Well good for you. but at the risk of pointing out the obvious, your loss is not Ed's and his is not yours.
We all have to deal with the death of our friends and loved ones at some point in our lives, some will inevitably scar us more than others.
Dealing with death can make strong men weak and weak men strong, it can bring friends and families together or drive them apart.
Death does not effect us all in the same way some appear to be able to shrug it off and move on others, will never come to terms with their loss. Thankfully for the most of us, it is a matter of time. Flippant as it sounds, time is the greatest healer.
The fact that we have suffered the loss of friends and loved ones does not give us the right to assume we know how others will be effected or for how long.
Ed, it will get easier to deal with in time.
