I came across your tribute to a beautiful young man. I cry, because I feel the loss of never having known him. Cherish his memories and always share them with others. I honor your loss and take from this a spark of "what if." May your family NEVER forget you Dan.

I know your pain,I lost my beautiful daughter March 2006 .I run a child loss website and forum [free of cost] For more support please visit
www.mychildlossgrief.org/
Again I am so sorry.Your son is beautiful
Louise Lagerman

A year ago, when someone very close to me passed away, I found this poem:

"I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then some one at my side says: 'There, she is gone!'
'Gone where?'

Gone from my sight.
That is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when some one at my side says: 'There, she is gone!' there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: 'Here she comes!'

And that is dying."

By Henry Van Dyke