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The most unimaginable pain.......

The loss of a child is one of those things that no parent wants to think about.  My grandmother once told me that children should always outlive their parents; that it was the natural order of things.  My grandmother had to bury one of her children, my uncle Roger Pierce, who passed away from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident when I was younger.  I'll never ever forget the pain I saw in her eyes, and the eyes of my mom and her siblings.  Today, someone I know had to make the decision to let their little one go.  Gabriel was 6 years old and fought a brave battle with illness, and his little body couldn't fight the fight any longer.  As a mother, nothing scares me more than the thought of losing my children.  It's something that if I even consider, my stomach knots up and I begin to panic.  I know that death is a natural part of life, but I want to go first.  I don't want to have to lose one of them before I go.  I work in the health care field, and I've seen