DEALING WITH DEATH
2025-12-02

Also received this in the mail yesterday from Michelle.
Yesterday morning, as I was driving my granddaughter to school, she said, "Did you know that Grandpa Lancaster passed yesterday?"
I answereed, "Yes, how do you feel about it?"
She responded, "Kind of like when Grandpa Goto died, kind of sad and maybe I want to go to the service,"
Then later in the day, I received the Grief Recovery book with my mail, explaining that death is a form of loss and can be positive as well. Grandpa died after a couple years of illness and is no longer suffering.
My own last memory of Grandpa Lancaster was of sitting together in front of our fireplace after the memorial service for my husband and my feeling gratitude that he and is wife came all the way to Seattle from Riverside, CA, to. show their respect and honor Sam's life.