On 2014-12-21 5:56 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> Thank you. Was some 15 years ago but I often feel a great loss.
> As one ages it's difficult to find new friends. I was hoping to have
> my SIL in my life but it was not meant to be. Sometimes I feel angry
> that she took her life, she over dosed.
>

From my experience, I have always found it harder to lose friends than
family. I will quickly add that spouses would fall closer to the friends
category than family, and I have not lost a child and I am sure that is
the worst of all. As we get on in years we lose the older family
members like parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles.