[MountainMomma]

How old where you when you first experienced the death of someone close to you (that you remember)?

[~InHisHands~]

little little little... I'm not sure when my great grandmother died but I remember crying a lot when I was young like 7 or 8 saying why did she have to die.

The first person I can remember what age I was was my cousin when I was about 14/15-ish... it was the summer after my 9th grade year.

[MountainMomma]

I was 5 when my Pap (my grandfather) died. I remember being at the hospital and seeing all the machines and asking why he wouldn't talk to me (he was in a coma) and then I remember being upset at the funeral and crying when they shot the guns for the 21 gun salute because I thought they were shooting my Pap.

[MamaAnna]

I can't remember how old I was. Definitely single digits. A friend of mine had to leave for eye surgery. We were both too young to understand why, but she had to have it done. Something went wrong though and she developed an infection that killed her.

[Mommy2Dakota]

My nan died about 4-5yrs ago. Was horrible seeing how much she changed before the end as she had breast cancer and she lost loads of weight and her hair was grey (when she ALWAYS dyed it black) so that was weird to see. My mum and I were at the hospital with her - she was unconscious for days - and my mum was crying and told her not to hang on as it was better to pass on than keep suffering. But my mum was scared of actually seeing her die, yet felt she should be there. Well - 5mins after we left she died. My mum felt that she had waited so as to spare us that pain.