When someone close one knows passes away, and one cries - exactly why does one cry?

Question

What are the reasons, if one were to think about it?

Answer 1

Because you have lost forever or so a lifetime seems, the familiarity of their smile and the sound of their voice.

When my mother died I thanked God for taking her and ending her suffering. Same with other people I have known, but there is an emptiness in my heart where they were -

I sometimes still find myself wishing I could write my "Sunday letter" to my uncle, send him photos, ask his opinion, pick up the phone and call him. He was so "with it" and so wise and kind ..... I miss him so much.

They are all gone now, so I guess I cried for me and sometimes still cry, because now there is just me, and my two kids - its lonely at the top.

Answer 2

Crying is an physical response to an emotional event. One can cry just as easily over happy things as sad. It's a normal outlet for when emotions are overflowing. Children don't have any tools to stop the floodgates and cry for lots of reasons - frustration, injury, not being permitted to do something, being placed on a time-out, etc. Adults can sometimes suppress the urge to cry but it's not recommended because crying is a healthy response - stuffing emotions and not allowing them to be experienced can create stress-related issues.

Answer 3

Some people cry because they are sad that their loved one is gone, some people cry because other people are crying, and some people cry and don't know why they are crying. I think the second one is a lot of the crying issues. I know I cry at funerals but most of the time I don't even know the person that well and I think I'm crying because everyone else is crying and I see everyone else sad and unhappy that it makes me feel that way as well.

Answer 4

If the person is saved, I cry because I will miss them, and I cry for those closest to that person, because they will miss them deeply. The otherside of the coin, is a great deep sense of happiness, even through the tears, because they will no longer suffer in this world of ours. Life here on earth is hard. No one goes through their days here without some sort of pain. With each heartache I have learned to be wiser,. I am very thankful for the joy as well, my God is merciful. However I look very forward to seeing my loved ones and friends that have gone on before me. I know there is no pain, or heartache in Heaven and our bodies are perfect and our minds clear. I think I felt that way when I was about 15......atleast once or twice!

Answer 5

Actually, there's "two" crying in my house at present - because we're sad, full of grief, knowing we won't see our wee loved one again. Does that answer "ones" question?

BTW - don't think this is your normal speech pattern - so why the "posh" mode?

Peppa J: If crying releases 47 toxins from your body, my husband and I must be about as pure as the driven snow by now. We've been crying practically non-stop since Friday.

Answer 6

First, we tend to cry because we are horrified that the person is gone forever; and its a giant loss for us.

We may cry because we will miss them.

We may cry because their life has ended, whether they're young or older.

We may cry for what they won't get to share with us.

We cry because we feel helpless and out of control, and its human nature to cry at times like that.

We may cry because before they died we were all worried and tensed about about what was going on with them, and once they actually pass away our adrenalin has a drastic drop - and we cry.

We cry out of pure sadness. The human response to some sadness is crying.

We cry over regrets.

We start to ask what we could have done different, and cry because we didn't do whatever it was we didn't do.

We cry out of sentiment.

We cry out of overwhelming grief and despair of losing someone we loved so much.

We cry for what they've gone through or never got to experience.

We cry over what we went through with them or what we'll never get to experience with them.

We cry because being forever separated from someone we love so much is an awful and hard-to-deal with thing.

Most of the time Nature provides us with feeling somewhat numbed after we lose someone, because if we weren't numbed we wouldn't just cry - we'd feel like we were losing our minds. As the numbness wears off we cry again because we begin to really feel the loss.

Answer 7

We cry for our loss of contact with that person. We should really rejoice over the passing of a loved one as they now have face to face fellowship with God, they have no more pain or sorrow and we will have a reunion with them in but a short time.

Answer 8

We cry because we have lost an important part of our lives.

Because we are alive, we love and keep on loving the person that has passed, however, we are unable to have that love returned in the fashion that it was when they were alive.

Crying is for those of us who have lost some of the dearest people we will ever know.

Answer 9

I cry because I know that there will not be anymore laughter, smiles, kisses, hugs and so on. It is the emptiness their absence leaves which makes me so very sad.

The reason I cry is because I am hurting. Plus, depending upon the cause of death, I shed tears when it is tragic as I cannot imagine what they must have felt, seen, heard....

It just plain hurts when others die that we love.

Answer 10

First, it's an emotonal response, but there is more. . . I read that crying releases 47 toxins from the body. Maybe crying is nature's way of keeping the body healthy under emotional stress -at least one of the ways.