Dear Dáithí: My brother died in an accident and I'm not coping with the loss

"I’m going to tell you something now and, if the same was told to me in 2002 when my sister died, I wouldn’t have believed it, and you might think the same way now. It does get easier, and you will get through this."

I don’t know how to do this. How do you grieve someone who was so young and taken so suddenly?

Eight months ago, my younger brother was killed in an accident. He was only 22. We were very close. 

He was full of life, kind, so funny, and had so much ahead of him. I still can’t believe he’s gone. Some mornings, I wake up and forget for a second. Then it hits me all over again.