As I mentioned in my profile I am a widower. My wife passed away on Sept. 4th 2002. We were only married for seven years but those were seven of the most fascinating years of my life. She was taken so suddenly and I was devestated. One reason I managed to make it back to the land of the living was yhat one night in a semi-drunken, grief-saturated state I stumbled across the MSN Grief and Loss Group (www.groups.msn.com./GriefLoss) There I met so many wonderful people who shared thier stories of loss and made me feel so not alone. I recommend this site to anyone who has suffered a loss.