Death Changes You. Permanently.
June 28, 2020
The death of my son changed me as a person more than any other event in my lifetime. The death of a loved one does that.
Death changes you. Permanently.
Permanence of death
- One of the harder parts of living without my son is continually relearning the meaning of the permanence of death. Because he didn’t just die on the day before his birth; he dies again every morning I wake up without him.
Second Eulogy
June 30, 2018
My son, Adrian James Hernandez, was stillborn exactly one year ago today. And his loss was the first time in my life where there was nothing I could fight and nothing I could do or say. These are my reflections on the past year since his death.
2 Feb 2018 – Grief is a Mother, Too
February 2, 2018
Death has never been my friend. The necessity of her existence is no more comfort than my own. I don’t hate her, but I look at her the way she looks at Disease. We are all harbingers. We all bring Pain.