Death of a Homeless Person: It's Effects on Others

If you have not experience death in a homeless environment you have not seen the effects it has on that population. If you have then you know what I am talking about, especially to the individual that died close  friends or room mates

The death of any roommate in any residential environment takes a profound hardship on everyone living at the residence, those who knew the individual, the staff that knew or worked with that individual,or any other staff; that knew where they lived or slept during the night.

Having seen the effects and witnessing the death of such, and the amount of anger and disbelief that the residence showed, made it hard for them to really comprehend at first, by asking questions about the individual, how they died made it a little better for some, just knowing some of the facts was what most of them wanted to know, although some of t had to be kept  private.

The ones mostly affected were roommates, and closest friends, who had a very hard time coming to terms with the death of a friend. If you can imagine losing your roommate that you have just talked to that night, and the individual died while you were asleep, to find out that they died what would you think, is it going to have  a serious on you or not, if you say no, I think you would be lying to yourself.

Each individual is different  how they handle the death of someone or their grieve. It is how they choose to handle the death and the grief ,if it is difficult for them they would  need help, coming to terms with it. I cannot imagine how each individual feel because I have never walked in the shoe of  a homeless person, regardless to say it is something all of us in society have to deal with when death occurs; only they deal with it in different ways to main stream society.

It is not something that can be ignored, when it comes to the homeless, we all have a part to play in our community when death happens to anyone. The community would miss that individual and so would their friends, and all who knew the individual, my sympathy goes out to any individual, and the family remember that all individual's whether homeless of not do have families.