What to Write in a Sympathy Note

CA-Claire

7 months ago

I wish everyone had the opportunity to read the wisdom in this article. There is so little taught in the way of etiquette anymore, that sometimes people really blunder their way around the death of friend or a loved one. What is most important it to continue to interject memories about the deceased individual - so often people avoid mentioning them, that there is a painful silence. It makes me happiest when someone has a fun memory that they share with me about my husband (gone almost 2 years now).

pioneer

7 months ago

Putting one's thoughts into words in a comforting way. Very helpful for the templates.

tmsf

10 months ago

Don't send flowers if the recipient has allergies, especially fancy white lily, unless you ask the florist to cut off the pollen parts. when my father died, I appreciated a friend telling me that her dad had passed years before and that it was still hard. Anecdotes are precious, but it was impossible to read them with out crying, and when someone calls we'd have to re-live it all in the telling of his last moments, we had to limit card reading and phone calls to one or two a day because it was just exhausting. The biggest help was to get back to work, to have something important to do.

lyrical

10 months ago

ALL of the information was sensible and applicable. Very well done. Thank you. I will keep this information and use it.