Update: Shared memories of losing a parent | Letters

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Gaby Hinsliff’s moving piece about the death of her mother brought back memories for Bob Dawson, John Lovell and Patrick Thomas Gosh, what a moving article by Gaby Hinsliff ( Losing a parent is a bewildering, lonely experience. The report also notes that Here are the things I wish I had known ahead of, 5 September ). It brought back so many memories of my mother dying, even though it was over 50 years ago. She, too, like Gaby’s mother, died of a then-unknown cancer that ravaged her body and which made her almost unrecognisable. A small army of neighbours and our family helped nurse her until she passed away at home. So definitely, Gaby, you are not alone. Afterwards, mourning can be a difficult and, at times, a very distressing process. It took me several years ahead of I could even talk about my mum’s death, but eventually, as they say, time is a great healer and I learned to be able to talk about what a wonderful and utterly supportive mother she had been. Bob Dawson Greenmount, Greater Manchester

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