Girl gifted parents grieving their son a teddy bear with a secret voice note. When they pressed play, everyone bawled
'It will never be the same without my brother...'
A woman (@pameeee_ on TikTok) from Las Vegas lost her baby brother and was devastated to see her parents struggling every single day with the unimaginable void he'd left. She knew she couldn't give them their son back, but at least she could give them something that reminded them of her brother. So, on Christmas, she gifted her parents a teddy bear with a secret voice note — and the moment they played it, everyone broke into tears. The daughter posted the heartbreakingly beautiful video on December 27.
Her mom was working in the kitchen, while her dad sat outside the room, when she approached them. She had gift-wrapped the teddy bears so her parents wouldn't instantly recognize what they were. The woman asked her parents to open the Christmas gifts, and as expected, both looked clueless at the stuffed toys. Mom opened it first and couldn't control her tears when she pressed the button, and the voice of her deceased son filled the room with love, memories, and heartbreak. She hugged the teddy bear as she would hug her son and kept weeping. While the dad, who also recognized the voice, almost teared up. He looked at the teddy bear and caressed it. One look at him, and you would know how much he missed his son and that he would give anything to hear his cheerful voice again. "It will never be the same without my brother," their daughter captioned the video.
While many argue that such presents may further distress them by reopening their emotional wounds, research shows that hearing a deceased person's voice may help grieving individuals to continue a psychological connection with them — the continuing bonds theory. Ruvanee P. Vilhauer, a psychologist, in her research, found that even after people have accepted someone's death, their voice can feel very real to them. This experience, apparently, can be quite comforting and not harmful. "...hearing the voice of the deceased can be a regular occurrence without causing distress or dysfunction and lends support to the idea that SED are a common concomitant of normal bereavement," the study added.
Meanwhile, reacting to the Instagram reel, @travelloversfranandbruno shared, "My daughter’s boyfriend passed away two years ago. Just a couple of weeks before we lost him, he had given her a Build-A-Bear with his voice recorded, saying, 'I love you. I will see you soon.' At the time, no one understood what 'see you soon' would come to mean until the accident happened. She later made a bear with his voice for his mother as well. Her reaction was the same as your parents." @mimisalinas7 commented, "Aww, your dad knew right away what it was! I’m sorry for y'all's loss. I’m literally crying watching them." @tiffanyaleanna said, "Hi! Grieving daughter here. Yes, it would hurt, but I think it’s better to feel the pain and longing at the same time than to suppress and try to feel nothing at all. Life is the ups and downs. It’s sad. Very sad. But we have to feel it all to move on."
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