KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — The memory of Flight MH370’s disappearance a year ago remains fresh for some family members of the 239 on board, with many still seeking the “truth” and yet to start grieving for their loved ones.
Melbourne-based Jennifer, whose husband Tan Chong Ling was on the flight, does not call herself a widow despite Putrajaya’s January 29 declaration of MH370 as an accident with no survivors, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported today.
“Half of me is gone and the other half is just struggling to survive,” the Malaysian mother of two teenage sons was quoted saying.
It took her seven months to finally remove the groceries from her car, which she had bought the day she found out about the plane’s disappearance.
Now a housewife turned businesswoman, Jennifer is still waiting for her husband to come back and tend to the yard of the new house that the Malaysian businessman had bought.
She has yet to stay in the house.
She continues to wait for answers and finding fresh theories on the MH370 as she helps out with the Voice370 support group for the flight’s family members.
“I know that if it were me on the plane, he will do the same, he will never give up on me,” she said.
“I want to know the truth. More than anything. And I will not stop till I find my husband.”
The Australian daily also reported the grieving process has yet to start for another MH370 next-of-kin, Danica Weeks, who lost her husband Paul Weeks.
“I haven’t even started the grieving process yet.
“Even for the children, we haven’t even had a memorial or had a chance to say our goodbyes,” the Perth-based mother of two boys aged two and four was quoted saying in a separate report yesterday.
Despite the one-year anniversary, the flight’s disappearance still feels “like yesterday” for Weeks, who is unable to tell her children the “truth” about her husband until she knows it.
“I don’t know what it is. I’m not going to make something up and find out that I was completely wrong!
“I have to handle these emotions from the kids and I don’t want to put them through it when there are so many theories. I want to know the truth first,” she was quoted saying by SMH.
No debris of MH370 has been found yet in the search in the southern Indian Ocean that is due to end in May 2015, but both Australian and Malaysian officials have expressed optimism that the plane would be found.
