Analyse af Bridget Keehans novelle 'Sorry for the loss'

A big part of our future is in our own hands, we create our own future by ourselves in this modern society, despite being born with the knowledge that everybody is going to die, somehow death still remains a taboo and it is something we do not talk about. Everyday all around the world, babies are born while others are dying. This is a natural process of any individual, and that is what the earth has to offer any living chromosome. While imagining that, how it is to tell a stranger, that one of their dearest family members has departed. You do not have any idea about, how the person you are going to give this message would react. You don’t even know who the person is at all, or how he looks like. The message is not meant to hurt him, but it is possible that the person will get hurt. This is a hard situation that awakes many thoughts, while trying to find some answers. Therefore it is good that, the short story written by the narrator Bridget Keehan called “Sorry for the loss” from 2008, deals with these anxiety provoking issues, which raise questions about different lifestyles, and how to handle difficult situations like these.