
That you will have peace.
That you will have good grief.
That you will be honest with yourself...letting out what is within you...and refusing to govern you ways of grieving by what you think others might be expecting you ought to do.
That you will allow your loved ones the same right to their own ways of grieving...never assuming that they should want to cry when you feel like crying...or talk when you feel like talking...or sit and stare when you want to.
That both your life and your death will be greatly enhanced by the perspectives that enter your life when a loved one exits your life.
That you will become daily more comfortable with the realization that death is part of living.
- Charlie Walton from the book "When There Are No Words"