🕊️ Condolence Messages

It wasn’t supposed to go this way. That’s what makes accidental death different from almost any other loss. There was

There are questions that arrive with this kind of loss. Not one or two — a whole flood of them.

Let’s talk about what they were like during it. Not the diagnosis. Not the statistics. Not the treatment plan or

You’d been grieving for months already. Maybe longer. From the moment the diagnosis came, or the moment you realized the

There was a before. And then there was a call. Everything before it is still intact somewhere — ordinary Tuesday,

It hits in the smallest moments. Not always when you expect it. Sometimes it’s reaching for your phone to send

It’s sitting in the break room right now. The card. Probably a tasteful white envelope, maybe a flower on the

You’ve read one. You know exactly what it sounds like. “It is with great sadness that we share the news

You know exactly who this is about. The woman you always wave to at the school gate. The guy from

You opened the email to draft a business update. And then you stopped. Because you’d just heard — through a