May's Note

"I am sorry to leave you like this. I hate you being sad but think how haoppy I"ll be with April, Mamma, Pappa and Big Mamma...." p. 210

First when I read this suicide note from May, I was sad and surprised. After thinking about it, I realized that she didn't exactly seem to belong on the Earth. She seemed to belong in heaven with her sister, April. For a while I thought she was getting better at not crying at everything and seemed to be going in the direction of dealing with life. Her death symbolized the fact that someone can never really get over something as traumatic as a death of someone that close.

I have never experienced the death of someone really close, only the deaths of pets. My dog Sheiva had really bad arthritits and for a while we were keeping her alive on pills and stuff. Eventually we let her go. It was good but at the same time it was hard, especially because I was not there to say goodbye. I can only imagine how August and June felt to have their sister die without being able to say goodbye.

Phoebe
Has anyone else had this type of experience of having to loose someone important?