The long road of healing

Photo By Pascal Huot
Louise Couture and Martine Boulet-Pelletier, respectively, have lost a daughter and a sister in the train accident. They have learned to live with this grief, even if the pain continues to eat away at it.

Dominique Lelièvre

Saturday, 20 January, 2018 22:48

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LAC-MÉGANTIC | Even though the pain and the fear are always present in the daily lives, comfort to the bereaved by the tragedy of Lac-Mégantic have found the strength to resume the course of their lives.

Martine Boulet-Pelletier will never forget the time when she praised her sister for the last time, Marie-France Boulet, during a family meeting, in the morning of July 5, 2013.

“I still remember how she was dressed, how she said “bye”… she loved it, talking to it, too. I’ve never review “, breath she said, describing her sister as a pillar of the family.

The 62 year old woman died in his apartment in the city centre when the oil content in the convoy murderer went up to his building and then to the consumer over the course of 50 hours.

If the shock has been brutal for the families of the victims, he has also served as an important lesson of life, believes Ms. Boulet-Pelletier. “If there’s one thing that has changed in my life, it is your happiness, that is where it is today, because you never know what awaits you tomorrow,” she says.

Serve as an example

At his side, Louise Couture, who lost his daughter Kathy Clusiault at the age of 24 years, explains that she is clinging to the other members of his family and his entourage, especially the younger people, to get out of the distress.

“You need to stay positive for them, the other small, it is true. I spent it with force, no pill, no antidepressants, nothing. I have another daughter and a grand-daughter who is arrival, then he must stay strong for them “, expresses it.

“It is out of the question that our grandchildren may not have a joy of life ; to live our sorrow to us, to be angry or bitter in life, no. Me, I’m a teacher, I have a bunch of kids at school and I want to see smiles, ” says his sidekick.

But it remains that the ” wound is deep “, grade Ms. Couture. The mother admits to having “developed” fears ” after the tragedy, she tries to master as it can. “It only remains for me a girl. It is not necessary that an accident happens… ” she said, voice full of emotion.

Immerse yourself in the sentence

The outcome of the long trial of the ex-employees of the MMA, on Friday, has also been revisiting several relatives of the victims in the sentence they had managed to drive away. “It has the remote a couple of years, it upset me deeply,” says Ms. Couture.

The two women entrust have been disappointed by the acquittals. “It is necessary that there is a responsibility somewhere,” asks Martine Boulet-Pelletier, who fears that the trial does not give any concrete result to Lac-Mégantic.

“If nothing changes, if, this year, there are no concrete things that are happening in our city, I say : “Why they have a trial ? Why they spent all this time and money ?” “, she says.