Patricia Briggs, one of my favorite authors, wrote in one of her novels: “Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.” (Briggs, n.d. n.p.) Everyone dies. That is a finality that we as humans are incapable of ignoring. The death of a loved one is a difficult to deal with regardless of how it happens. Everyone will lose someone or something to death, it is unavoidable. Someone important to me died when I was around seven or eight years old. One hot summer day, while my mother and I were out running errands we got a phone call. Riddle Hospital’s emergency room called to tell my mother that my grandfather had fallen outside of his home. He had broken his hip during the fall and was stranded outside for many hours in the hot