Biblical Theology 2005

Akma,

any chance you have the case study, Brother of the Deceased, as a Word.doc file so you could email it to the commuting students?

thanks!
Leigh

A classmate and I just discussed this case study very briefly, commenting that we both had to deal with this a lot in CPE, but that neither one of us knew the answer yet. I never had a sister and I've never lost a sibling, but I did lose a dear friend of mine my junior year of college to a car accident. Because of that experience, I am very acquainted with Lance's (from the case study) college friends, even those from his Bible study group. They didn't know what to say or do, so they said nothing. When I was going through this that night, my roommate, who had recently lost his father to cancer, said nothing to me at first but just gave me a hug. Later in the week, after I had returned from home and the funeral, another close friend came up to me and at least acknoledged his uncertainty by saying, "Ryan, I know I've not been a very good friend through all this. It's because I have not known what to say and so I have said nothing. I'm sorry." That meant a lot to me, too. But as for a lot of my other friend's I think they fit the bill for Lance's circle of acquaintances and that is hard.

-R