Hw 19

   Even though I come from a big family there haven't been a lot of deaths that have accrued. The only ones we can recall of is of my Paternal Grandmother/Grandfather and my mothers grandmother who I did not know. Besides those deaths everyone else is healthy and alive. My ( mother,father, uncles,aunts, and cousins) are all still living. So when it comes to death and illness I really don't have anything to refer to and draw from.
   The first death that I experienced in my family was of my paternal grandmother. She spent most of her life in Jamaica and then moved to Connecticut were I seldomly  saw her. The couple times I visited her, we barely talked and due to the fact that our relationship wasn't strong when she passed away it did not really have an affect on me. My paternal grandfather passed away before I was even born. The deaths that happen on my father side had no impact on my life because I never really got a chance to build a relationship between my grandmother and I, and I did not know my grandfather.
   My mothers grandmother was ill for a very long time and even though she was bedridden she lived to see a 100. She was taken care of by my grandfather and his wife for 3 years until she passed away. She was also a person in my family that passed away that I did not know.
  In Jamaica one of the main death practices and customs that people followed who lived in the rural parts of Jamaica. Was that when someone died there body would get wrapped in sheets, and then the pastor would come to the home and pray for the family and pray for the person who just passed away. When that was all done the person was buried in the yard on their home.