Rob Delaney

Rob Delaney Instagram – 6 years ago today the little guy looking at us from the box was getting ready to die. He had a little less than a week left.
I’ve wanted to say that – since writing the book about Henry – the volume of letters and messages I’ve gotten from other bereaved parents and siblings is completely unbelievable. It feels very strange to not be able to reply to all of them. One, there are only so many hours in the day and I have alive children and an alive wife to spend time with. And two, meaningfully engaging with the massive emotions surrounding children’s deaths all the time would probably kill me.
But I want to say hello to all the bereaved parents and siblings who have written me and say that I love you. And doesn’t it feel good and right to write about your dead child? To say their name? To see it written down and send it off to someone else? To parent your child in some way, even though their body is gone?
You love them. And they love you.
Finally, I wrote a book about grief but it didn’t make me an expert. Just another meatball trudging along, making between 8-12 mistakes each day. | Posted on 13/Jan/2024 17:56:34