The Death of a Child

Yesterday, MHW called with the news that Chasyah Nechamah Liba Bas Sagit had succumbed. She was 11. Baruch Dayan Ha'emes.

She had been chronically ill with a heart ailment that took a terrible turn for the worse in mid July. Nechamah had just started her session at Camp Simcha Special when this occurred. She was taken straight to the hospital and never recovered.

Nechamah was a friend of my little one. My little one is in sleepaway camp and might find out from someone else so MHW has to call her today. MHW asked me what she should say, as if I would know. I told her that the words would come to her. They always do when it comes to talking to our children.

MHW went to the levayah which was held at JFK. She said she couldn't hear the hespedim but it didn't really matter. The women, including a bunch of staff from Camp Simcha Special, were just crying and hugging each other the whole time. (The girls who work at Simcha and Simcha Special are extraordinary...but that is for another time).

As a parent, I can't even begin to imagine the pain her parents are experiencing. We have been given a window into this terrible world by Robert Avrech, but still....

May Hashem find a way to comfort Nechamah's parents and give them strength.