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I remember the day my Uncle Billy passed. It was a Monday. I was flying to Hawaii the next day and was scrambling to get work done so I could finish packing.
It was 11:30 a.m. and I was on a call with my boss, Melissa, giving her an update on projects and tying up loose ends on tasks. Another call popped up on my display. It was my Aunty Kathy, Uncle Billy’s wife. I was very close to the two of them and Aunty and I were in the same bible study together. I thought she was calling to talk about that night’s study. I made a mental note to call her back.
My call with Melissa ended with me promising to send over some documents that afternoon. I called Aunty Kathy back.
“Hi Kanoe.”
“Hi!” I said brightly. “How are you?”
“There’s no easy way to say this. My dad has passed.”
I was confused. Aunty Kathy’s father, Uncle Daniel, had passed years earlier. Her words didn’t make sense.
“I’m sorry?”
The other person repeated herself. “My dad has passed.” It took a few seconds but I finally realized that the person I was talking to wasn’t my aunt -- it was my cousin Aimoku. And she was telling me that her dad, my favorite uncle, was gone.
I lost it. I collapsed to the ground and sobbed violently. Uncle Billy and I had been close since I was a baby. He was like a second father to me. The reality that he was gone leveled me.
The phone rang again. This time it was Aunty Kathy, calling to console me. When I said I was going to put off my trip to Hawaii, she interrupted me.
“No you’re not, Kanoelani,” she said firmly. “You’re going to get on that plane, go to Hawaii and enjoy time with your family. This will be healing for all of you.”
She was right. My parents, kids and I flew out the next day and spent the next week with my siblings and aunts and uncles helping each other walk through the grief of our loss. I was glad I didn’t have work to do (I almost brought my laptop with me to work a couple days.) I would have been useless. I slept a lot. Cried a lot. Laughed a ton, over old stories. And just remembered one of the best human beings I’d ever known.
Grief knocks the emotional wind out of us, as we see in today’s HR Leader story. More companies are seeing this and responding with paid bereavement leave for their workers. You need time not just to handle logistics, but to process the tornado of emotions. Kudos to the organizations that are getting ahead on this and providing important support to their team members.
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