the deceased:故人

東日本大震災が日本を襲って以来昨日で2年目。

新聞を開くと
2ページの見開きが震災や津波で亡くなった方々の写真で埋まっていた。

亡くなられた方々の中には、息子と同じくらいの子もいた。
かわいそうでならない。

それぞれの写真には、遺族の方々からのメッセージも添えられていた。
これらのメッセージが故人に届く事を願わずにはいられない。

It was two years yesterday since the Great East Japan Earthquake hit Japan.

When I opened a newspaper,
two facing pages were filled up with the pictures of the deceased people who died
due to the earthquake or tsunami.

Some of them were kids around my son’s age.
I felt terribly sorry for them.

The messages from their bereaved family were along with each picture.
I can’t help wishing these message could be sent to the deceased people.