No real emotion after my fathers death,

Dear all,

I'm on here like many of you, just wanting to express feelings to people who are going / gone through the same. My father passed last week with cancer and it all happened pretty quick. It was the chemo that destroyed him due to negligence by the hospital (that's another story and court case). But I don't understand why I have little emotion. I only cried when I went to see him on the bed at home a few hours after he passed... and that wasn't a great deal. I thought the world of him. The funeral is tomorrow and I just don't know how I will react but I feel that I won't cry. I'm hoping to soon because I want that release. I'm not even angry though and can still have a laugh and joke with people.

Im curious if anyone else felt like this and if eventually emotions caught up with them.

Im not heartless and am a deep emotional person normally.

Simon. 

  • Hi Simon

    Everyone reacts differently to the loss of a loved one. There is no right or wrong or normal. I have lost both my parents and were with them when they died. Like you I have had little emotion about it. I loved both of them dearly and miss them terribly but have been unable to cry for them even at their funerals when everyone else was choked up. Perhaps you will react differently at the funeral tomorrow. But dont beat yourself up about it if you don't. I wish you all the best for a difficult but neccessary day. Kim