A Final Farewell: Burying a Colleague & the Pain of Goodbye

Today was the day of the burial of one of our co-worker here in our company. One of our co-worker had an unfortunate incident while going to the company and when we heard the news, we were worried, scared, concern, and some of our co-workers cried after the incident happened.

There were lots of sad things that happened to that day and maybe it's not on that day but during the span of the month that there were many accidents that occurred around us. One of our co-worker died while going to work and we mourn his death even if he was new to this company but the memories that he made during that span of months was true and genuine that he gave his best for the task that he was given to but an unfortunate event that ended his life.

I won't dig into what happened to him to this blog but I will only tell on the day of his burial, which was today and we witness together with my other selected co-workers that went here to the burial and I was one of the selected employee to go to the burial of one of our co-worker.

On the day of his burial (which was today), we first went to the church to give prayers in the morning to our co-worker and some went to take photos of him. There were relatives, neighbors, families, friends, or even his co-workers now and before.

After we finished to the church, we went to the cemetery to put him there. We accompanied him to the cemetery where he was going to put and we rode on our cars, some use their own vehicles because it's a little bit far away from the church to the cemetery.

As we were at the cemetery, we went to sit to one of the chairs and the others were standing while using the umbrella because it was sunny and it was really hot during that hour which I think almost 11 in the morning.

When it was the time that they will bury him, the family were very sad and some were crying out of frustration that one of the family member were now gone and the other people were singing songs to it for the last time that we were going to see his body inside the coffin.

It's hard to see the family are crying and when I saw them, I also cried even if we were really not closed to this co-worker but while seeing them, I remember the time that my grandfather was also died and bury him to one of the cemetery and I really cried a lot because I will really missed my grandfather on how he takes care of us, his grandchildren.

I couldn't resist on not crying on the day of my grandfather's burial because he was always there in times that we need help. So, while seeing them, there were tears that poured from my eyes and it's painful to see them after they lost someone they dear a lot.

We give condolences to the family after the burial and after we ate lunch that they give which was called a packed lunch. We were very sad in that moment and we bid goodbyes after the burial since we have work to do in the afternoon.

Note: The first photo was edited in Canva