When Death Shows Up At The Wrong Time

Bonding with each other through loss

Alicia Domínguez
Age of Empathy
Published in
7 min readMay 8, 2023

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It’s been just two weeks since the dad of my eldest son’s best friend died. My son and his friend are only 12.

The thought that comes to mind when someone is snatched from his/her family way too soon is that “It isn’t right.” In Spain, we say “It wasn’t his/her turn yet.”

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Alicia Domínguez
Age of Empathy

English philologist/ Independent researcher/ Writer/ Self-Development Mentor through the Gothic-Jungian lens