Descriptive Essay About My Grandma - 765 Words

My Grandma Death. Something everyone deals with in their life. It’s the end of your story. People handle death in many different ways, from completely losing it, to it not affecting them at all. For me death hit very hard. I had never experienced the death of a loved one until my Grandpa had past. I was never close with my Grandpa but seeing him in that hospital bed that he wasn’t going to leave really upset me. This was the first death in my family. It was a horrible event but the death that has really affected me to this day was when his wife, my grandma, passed away. I wake up on a wonderful Saturday morning. It’s the middle of summer and the sun is shining through my window right into my eyes. I wake up and get ready for the day. I†¦show more content†¦I’m going to stay at Connors to get my mind off of it. Keep me posted.† â€Å"Okay. I’ll talk to you later.† When I was told that my Grandma had an aneurism in her brain she told me not to worry about it. She said when it burst it will kill her instantly and she won’t feel a single thing. It’s what she wanted. Sadly, this did not happen. She lived for 5 more day until she passed away. There was one point after her aneurism burst that she became conscious. She had one thing to say. â€Å"They lied.† My Grandma always had a very weird sense of humor. When my family heard her say this, we knew that she was still there. What affected me the most when my Grandma passed was that it happened so abruptly. One weekend I’m playing games with her and planning the next weekend. The next weekend I’m seeing her on her death bed. I have so many memories of playing games with her but I feel like I never spent enough time with her. I never got to know her how I wish I could have. I wanted to learn more about her childhood and how she met my Grandpa but it’s too late. As a kid, I felt like she would be around forever and when I grow up I will learn more about her. I didn’t know death was so real. 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