Grief is an emotion that unfortunately, we all come to experience some time or another. However, that terrible feeling can open the door to acceptance and appreciation. Mourning and reflecting upon a tragic event can cause one to look at an issue through a different perspective, and maybe even help them accept it. On the September 29, 2014, one of my close friends committed suicide. This horrible event taught me that when a society is faced with a tragedy they all unite as one, and it teaches the bearers of the burden to be appreciative. Initially, a community comes together when a tragedy has occurred because it is human instinct to stick together through rough debacles. When I first saw Daniel, I could not believe that he was the person laying down in the room which I was directed too. Every single part of his body that was visible looked like it had been filled up with air as if they were balloons. The only thing keeping him alive was the machine that he was connected too, it didn't even look real when the machine took breaths for him. It seemed as if he was just a blown up vegetable rocking up and down. His toes and fingers possessed an awful, greenish, and deathlike tone that makes me sick to my stomach by just thinking about it. The few people who were allowed to see him, instantly had a much deeper understanding between each other. Putting that scene into words is almost tear breaking due to the horrendous emotions that it brings me; that being said, I began to realize that I was going to come out of this hell possessing a stronger bond with every person which whom I shared that experience with. I feel like no one except the people that were there, can understand or try to comprehend the way that environment made me feel. This event also caused people that couldn't even be in the same room with each other, to come together because of the issue at stake. Clearly, tragedies allow a community to unite. Furthermore, a