I have just started reading the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson.  In doing so, I have started surfing the internet to find info on him.  His partner of 32 years Eva Gabrielsson is writing a book about Stieg Larsson.  The second part of the book describes her grief over Larsson’s death and how she dealt with it.  Below is an excerpt from an interview she did with Rachel Cooke of  The Observer.

“It’s about what it’s like to lose someone like that, someone you’ve loved for so long. Everyone will encounter this [the shock of losing someone] sooner or later. I want to show what a hell it is. But also I want to say: don’t be afraid. Embrace it, and you’ll get through it. You become somebody else. You can’t sleep, you can’t eat, you are in total distrust of the world. But this is the way it is supposed to be. There is something in our genetic code, something primitive, that takes us over because our rational self cannot deal with the reality. You’re an animal now. But the more of an animal you are, the safer you are: it protects you. It’s there to help you survive.”

This seems a bit dramatic, but it describes exactly how I felt when I was dealing with the death of my father and our beloved dogs, Bronte and Charlotte.  Especially this part…our rational self cannot deal with the reality.

-thotlady

Bronte

Charlotte