About 9 months ago one of my co-workers passed away, and I have no issue in saying that I still miss her. It is starting to get a little easier though. I realized today that I am no longer in the habit of looking for her car in the parking lot, I haven't had a dream with her in it for a few months, and seeing her name on documents at work no longer makes me want to immediately flip to a new page. However, it is still hard to deal with her passing in other ways. She was by far the closest I have ever been to someone who died. Which of course makes sense. When you work with someone 40 hours a week for almost 2 years there are times that you question who you see more, you co-workers or your family. The topic of death seems more real to me now and as such I have had a harder time dealing with it.