Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies

by T.J. Wray

The year my brother died, I forgot how to breathe. Often it would catch me unaware, that terrible feeling that I was suffocating—at work, at home, sometimes at night, as I tried to sleep. As if I had drawn a breath but simply forgotten how to exhale. “I think there's something wrong with me,” I confided

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The truth about sibling relationships is that no matter how old we become, how much we may change, how far away we may wander, or how infrequently we may communicate, we're forever connected. This is an unspoken truth that lives in the heart of every sister and brother.