I’m having a difficult time grieving the loss of a colleague who was more like family. We worked side by side for 14 years and had a close bond outside of work. He was like a grandad to me, and I miss him deeply.
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Hello @sarah1988,
I’m so sorry for the loss of your work colleague. Thank you for sharing this with us. I’m just giving your thread a gentle, “bump” for you - hopefully someone will have some thoughts to share.
Take good care,
Naoise
I had a good colleague in my team who died very suddenly. From the sound of things you are far closer to your colleague that I was to mine, but I liked him and was fond of him and grieved at his death. It was hard to know what to do as due to the relationship being through work I almost had no place in his mourning. In the end what I did was get a book and pass it through the office so everyone could write their memories and happy tales of their knowledge of the colleague in it and then a group of us together went to the funeral to pay our respects and also to hand the book to his wife. This felt like a proper commemoration of a good kind man, and by going as a group we were all able to support each other. I pass this on for what it is worth in case there is something useful in it for you. I’m so sorry to hear of your loss.
I was very close to him we used to go for meals etc he was always over mine we would talk all day on the 24th Dec I was informed that his funeral was the day before the family didnt tell anyone im going to speak to the local church around here see if we can do a memoriam service or something I love what u did I bet the family loved it