[Publius6961]

Not even the greatest literary giants of this or any other time are capable of crafting words sufficient to assuage the profound grief that is inherent to the passing of any parent's child.

Well, I can relate personally to this saddest of all possible griefs.

In addition, I can identify at least one giant of literature who also happened to experience this grief, and history does not tell us if he was able to "assuage" his own grief.

But he did leave a treasure of poems in the attempt : Victor Hugo.

[Publius6961]

Deepest sympathy to the Dungy family.

[beyond the sea]

Yes....

[silverleaf]

Mark Twain lost two children. Robert Frost lost a child. Charles Darwin lost a child. Abraham Lincoln lost two children. Thomas Jefferson lost a child. I think more US Presidents lost children than not. Losing a child 3 days before Christmas, extra pain if possible on top of the seemingly unbearable. Irving Berlin lost a baby on Christmas Day. I think of this every time I hear "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas".


This family's new painful life jopurney is profoundly felt and shared by those of us who walk on the same track.

[Howlin]

Another writer lost three children, but I cannot remember who it is right off the top of my head.