The Second Life Relay For Life community is preparing for the passing of one of our volunteers, Feliciaa Feaver. It is hard on the community and hard on me personally because I never really thought about the power of relationship building through a virtual community. There are some things our trainers did not tell me at my orientation, they say a lot but never really talked about how you cope with loosing a volunteer. It is an inevitable occurrence seeing what we at the Society do for a living. I spoke with some counterparts here and they shared their experiences, how hard it is every time you loose a volunteer. Felicia is our first SL volunteer to leave, and my hope is that it never gets easier. It hurts because we care.
This all brings into focus why I work where I do, and why all of our volunteers work as hard as they do ... there are so many people left that we can still help. There is so much research to conduct, so many patients to help, survivors to honor, and loved ones to memorialize. Continuing on with SLRFL is how we all can remember Felicia and everyone else who lost their battle with cancer.
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I'm sorry hear about your loss. It's one of the sad reminders of why our work to fight cancer is so important.
Posted by: Erin | March 30, 2007 at 06:26 PM
So sad :(
Posted by: Jeska "Linden" | April 02, 2007 at 10:06 PM