User blog comment:SuperFanon'D!/My grandfather died yesterday :(/@comment-1762932-20140719203256

That must be a very sad time for you. I've never had any of my grandparents die yet (two of them are very close, though - they're both eighty years of age) so I don't know exactly what it's like, but still.

I was pretty sad when my old piano teacher died suddenly just a week after my last lesson with her. However, then I just got over it, didn't cry about it anymore, and went to another piano teacher after that. I don't know, maybe I'm just that kind of person.

I do remember my great-grandfather Liam (whom I got my name from, and met with a few times) dying a few years back. He was ninety-eight. Surprisingly, despite being fairly close to him, I never felt that sad - maybe it was because I was only seven, I don't know - but just accepted that he'd died, and that at least I had my parents, whom I loved very much, and my grandparents, whom I knew very well, and that wherever he was now, he'd be with his wife, whom he spoke about a lot with me (especially how she died - walking stick broke during a stroll outside and she fell).

I have a photo of him hugging me in an album in my living room. I haven't looked at it in years.