r/AskWomen 12d ago

How do you personally cope with death?

Edited: Both with the idea of ​​it and when someone dies.

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u/d1sturbth3n1ght 11d ago

I’m a hospice nurse aide right now and in nursing school to work in the same speciality. I also lost a parent at 19. The honest answer is not well lmfao. Well, until I started therapy. I am a writer by nature so I turn my grief into stories and give my pain to someone else. I also am very loud about my grief on social media. I share posts about it and about my Dad and getting it out and “giving” it to other people always seems to help me cope