4 things that will help you to cope the death of a beloved family member

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Hello everyone, i am glad to share with us some tips on how to cope or to endure the death of a beloved family member. As you all know when death strike, it comes with a lot of confusion, nagative thinking and depression so knowing what to now helps us to prepare our mind to face it or to help another person.

• Avoid staying alone
• Accept help
• Eat healthy food and maintain regular exercise.
• Practice giving.

It is no longer news that death have affected everyone living on this earth. It could be death of a father, mother, husband,wife,brother, sister, Son, daughter, friend, uncle or grandparents. In a nutshell, all of us have felt the pain of death.

This have led to so many questions about this life, the purpose of life or the hope of the dead. We ask all this questions and more that moment we received that bad news. Sometimes, we find it difficult to believe that the news we heard is not true.

yesterday i visited a friend who lost his wife in death 2 weeks ago, though she has been sick, he did not know that she will die so soon.

He told me that the shock he recieved that day when the doctor told him that his wife is dead is still fresh in his memory, he also said, though i am preparing for her burial on 10th of December 2022, i can't still believe it that my wife is dead. He added, what really is this life? Why is life turning backward? What is really going on? I am completely lonely. We could not hold the tears.

I felt the same way too when my mother died. Even though I took her to the mortuary, i forgot it and prepared food for her the following day to take to the hospital because all my mind was that she is in the hospital. I was not thinking in the right direction again. May be you may have your own story to share when it comes to death. Death have left so many children hopeless and homeless, it has brought feath to parents too when they lost their children. Now comes the big question how do I cope or endure the death of a loved one?

• Avoid staying alone: one of the things that affect us is loneliness. Loneliness is a bad weapon when you are in pain. It can lead to sucide or wrong decision. Grieving period is never a good time to isolate yourself from people, never, never think of staying alone. Try to stay around your quality friends who will tell you some upbuilding stories. When you are with friends, the dept of your pain will reduce.

• Accept help: Never think that you are okay. You can handle it. You don't really need that help, no. Remember as your friends come to stay with you, they can help you in washing of clothes, cooking, fetching of water, buying things from the market. When they volunteer to assist you, do not reject it. Accept gift from dear friends, moment like that will bring smile on your face.

• Eat healthy food and do exercise: It is normal to feel weak in almost every thing. Lost of appetite is also associated with that. When you stop eating, you are doing yourself more harm than good. Remember the dead do not hear or see how much we are crying or how deep our wound is. So do not stay hungry at all. Maintain your good eating habits.

  exercise is another way to cope. Maintain your exercise routine, yes, it will help your blood to circulate very well. It will help your bone to be strong. Most importantly your brain will function very well.

• Practice giving: The last in our list is practicing giving. Why is it important in this challaging period? Giving in general makes a giver happy. When are giving things to others, you are buying happiness. Imagine the happiness on the receiver face, hope you can see her smile now. What if you the giver, you will receive a big huge which is the natural way to cure stress and anxiety. Giving is an antidote of loneliness, grief, pain, depression, lack of appetite.

  I hope this few points help all of us to continue to endure until the appointed time comes when God will bring this mankind enemy death to nothing..

  In summary, feel free to drop other things that helped you cope in the comment section. Thank you all to find out time in your busy schedule to read my post.