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Dying season

pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2019 in General Discussion
Seems the dying season has begun in my neck of the woods . So far this week I have been to three funerals of neighbors / fellow church members. Just now found out that another relative died Monday and the funeral is on Thursday . Mavis was married to dads first cousin. She and Mom were best friends and talked every day until senile dementia robbed her of her abilities to function . Anyone else notice this happening in your area ?
cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,371 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    maybe just part of getting old more people we know or family meeting there end
    a very old buddy from back in my younger days just passed then I seen the obit and reading seen his younger brother who ran with us had also passed
    not counting all the parents of old friends
    a cousin of my wife just young fellow took his own life last week and another cousin they found dead in her bed room and some I had met also when younger I have saw in the obits over the last few months .
    my take like I said getting older over time knowing meeting more people families getting bigger odds are if we keep living we will see more family and friends passing on
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,008 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seems like the longer life goes on, the more the leaves fall. May all of us be as strong as the tall oak, and live as long, and strong as we can.... RIP family and friends..
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only blood relative I have left that I could pick out of a lineup is my brother. All the others have scattered to the corners of the earth. I?m guessing I would recognize my brother. I saw him last a little over two years ago.

    When I moved here thirty years ago I had three neighbors that I could see their houses from my house. I?m the only one left. My wife has been gone for over two years now. Yes, I?m familiar with the feeling you are talking about. It never occurred to me that Wyonie would die before I did. There are times I have to disagree with the old saying ?life is short?. Sometimes it seems pretty long to me. I don?t see much likelihood that I?ll accomplish anything else in this lifetime, but I?ll wait my turn.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,771 ******
    edited November -1
    My brother Tom, just 3 years older than I was a casket builder all of his adult life. I would sometimes visit him in his shop and most of the talk was about so and so who had died and was getting one of Tom's specialties. Over the years he made the caskets for many of our friends and family who had passed including all grandparents and both parents.

    Tom had a great outlook on life and death, and when death came for him in the form of cancer a short while ago I have to say he went out with more dignity and inner strength than anyone I have ever known.

    His three grown sons built his casket. His youngest now runs the family business.
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