Originally Posted by
Austin4Wyo 
I'm okay with it. I don't plan to get "over" the loss. I find it far healthier to simply get through it and make it as constructive an experience as possible.
Onward.
im very glad youre viewing it that way. ive gotten to know people who have died from alcoholism/addiction- the hardest being a very good friend i wrote about here a while ago,thom.
ill never be over it. i read your thread yesterday and greiving started again. but im getting through it.
the hardest thing i think for me was(and can still be) is the anger i can get- i have to aim it at the disease and not the person.