Harumi wrote:
idk how it is to lose a parent, but have lost close ones
It's very hard at first, sometimes I forgot that they were dead and was thinking of calling them until I remembered they weren't here anymore. It's very painful at the beginning, and it feels kind of empty, like you're missing something inside you.
But after a while the pain is lessened, but it never goes totally away. Even tho it's been a few years I still feel a stab of pain of missing them sometimes. I still get very sad when there are things I wished to tell them, but they weren't there anymore, I miss their voice, their smile, their smell and their warmth when I hugged them. But it's definitively better now, I can look back on the good memories now, and not only the bad ones at the end. And I even smile when I think of them once in a while. It's kind of bittersweet.
If your friend have any close friends or family I would recommend them talking to them about their lost one, about how they feel, but also try talking about the nice memories. For me it helped talking about it, it just got worse trying to keep all the feelings inside.