The New Epinions-Not Here For Me Any More Feb 14 '01    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Books Irene Hunt - The Lottery Rose: A Novel From $6 John Steinbeck - East Of Eden From $7 The Bottom Line I do like Epinions and it can be very helpful but the dropping of some essay categories I feel was a big mistake. Recently I read an Epinion by sweetsue_98 complaining about the dissolving of an old Epinions topic. I agreed with what she said so much that I decided to write my own Epinion on the subject. Not too long ago I received a very disturbing phone call. My new sister called to tell me that my birth mother that I had just found 2 years ago was in the hospital dying. This was a crushing blow for my son and I. Due to medical problems on both sides we had never gotten to meet as neither one of us could travel very well. We had gotten close through letters, shared pictures and phone calls when we could afford them. Virginia (my birth mother) and our new family did everything they could to introduce us to our long lost biological family. This phone call came on a night that we were having one of our famous paralyzing blizzards in Kansas, my son was away at college and by some unusual quirk of fate my three best friends were out of town. My sister couldn't stay on the phone long as she was at the hospital using a calling card and like me really can't afford anything but a short long distance call. Because of all the afore mentioned situations I needed a way to vent my feelings and frustrations. Naturally I thought of Epinions. Many times explaining about something in writing will help me to get a clearer picture of the situation and cope. It can almost be like talking to someone or listening to yourself talk which to me can really be helpful. I was shocked and disappointed when I went to the site and found that the "Coping With Death" category no longer existed. In my sad state at the time I really felt like Epinions just wasn't here for me any more the way it used to be. Here I desperately need to express my feelings and I couldn't do it here either. Apparently Epinions doesn't seem to think that this was an important enough topic to keep. I very much disagree. I had read many heart wrenching, emotionally charged essays under this topic. Many I am sure were written by people who just needed someone to talk to and someone to listen. Some were written by people either wanting advice or having advice to give. Who can't use advice, thoughts and ideas from others on this subject? Unfortunately we are all going to have to face the death of someone dear to us at some time in our lives. Most will have to face it more than once. I guess now Epinions feels such topics as, "How to choose socks", "How to choose shorts", "How to care for and maintain hoes?" and "What is a bib?" are more important than a topic where people can vent their feelings, frustrations and maybe find a little solace in being able to talk things out through their writing. I hope no one that has written Epinions in these new somewhat controversial topics will take offense as this is not my intent. I have read some very creative opinions on these topics. I am not saying that these topics can't be useful nor should they be discarded, I am just saying that in my opinion the "How to cope with death" topic and probably some others that can really help people emotionally shouldn't have been taken away from us. How I long for the old Epinions that was here for us when we needed it.

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