My uncle just passed away

[anwserman]

My Uncle Larry to be exact, he was just 55 or something. His wife, very sick, found him on the floor. He just died about 20 or 30 minutes ago.

So, here I am. I kinda feel strange about this. I don't know the guy at all (never seen him since I was like one), I'm not really sad or anything but he is family though. I know I am not going to the funeral (since I don't feel like getting hugs about how much of a tough time this is for everyone when I'm actually indifferent), especially since I'm in college and it will be in New Mexico.

But its odd how things just happen out of the blue. We got the first call about him on his deathbed when we were playing Pictionary. Off-topic, my team won. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[Sord]

my friend just went to his great grandpas funeral in texas. He said it was a pain in the ass. I've been to two great granparents funerals, BORING!

[Dangerous55]

I don't want to sound like a dick, but why did you feel the need to tell us?

[derBauer]

sorry to hear baout that. One of my friends is in the hospital right now with lung cancer and he doesn't even know it. He only knows that he has intestinal cancer. He's not going to make it and the doctors decided if they told him he had 2 kinds of cancer, he would simply give up.

Anyway, sorry to hear about your uncle.

[Stormsworder]

Yeah. Things like that happen. My mom's mom died in the nursing home while we were playing Monopoly. I never really knew her, either.

[anwserman]

On 2004-01-18 15:28, Dangerous55 wrote:
I don't want to sound like a dick, but why did you feel the need to tell us?



Because I can? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_confused.gif
I dunno, just wanted to say something about it. I typically rant and express my feelings on these forums.

[Uncle_bob]

Atleast your Uncle Bob is still around, yes? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[anwserman]

I am happy indeed. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[derBauer]

On 2004-01-18 15:28, Dangerous55 wrote:
I don't want to sound like a dick, but why did you feel the need to tell us?



Pot calling the kettle black?

[Dangerous55]

On 2004-01-18 16:08, derBauer wrote:

Pot calling the kettle black?




Za?

[Solstis]

I barely know most of my relatives. When my Great-Granpa died in, oh, '93, I was like.... 7 or 8 and wasn't sad at all. I was actually happy to be in New York (where the funeral was). I felt bad about not feeling bad though.

[Amiadon]

There have been lots of deaths recently for my family and I.

First, My great-grandmother died. We went to her funeral, and I was sad... but not for the reason you all think... the thing is, i wasn't sad at all. And this wasn't your case of "I haven't seen her in years", I saw her a month before, and usually went to see her once a month. She was a very nice person.

A week later, my friend came over... we talked for about 5 minutes, then he said "Guess what happened to (Name Edited)?" I said "He died! HA!" and started laughing, and then he said......
"How did you know?" I stopped laughing then. He was a boy from school... he was only 13.

Some time later, my father gets a letter from his friend's wife... her husband died, committed suicide. His children used to be my best friends.


Thing is, I never shed a tear for any of those deaths. I am starting to worry; Could i really be the ice-hearted person people are marking me as?

HA. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif sorry, i know how stupid that sounded like. Something like sex and the city, where that main character always talks to herself. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif
Please forgive me.

[ABDUR101]

Funny, I really never get sad at people dieing. I just figure everyone dies, and there are too many people to always cry because one of them died. Not that they won't be missed, and most people beleive they are in a better place anyway, so I don't cry because they are finally gone.

What usually chokes me up, is seeing the reaction of the loss of someone has caused to others.(The vast majority of people will NOT leave their mark on the world for everyone to remember in history, however, to see the mark someone has made on someone's life directly, and see how others remember and revere the person, even if only for a short while, is quite powerful.)

Family members bringing up past actions and memories with the person and so on. But the thought of them being somewhere much better, hopefully, usually negates all sadness.

Relatives, friends of friends and so on that you barely know, there's no impact of loss, unless you see those effected first hand.

[Amiadon]

My family, except me, are all Atheists. But they are really good with my religion and don't ask questions... which is hard for them, as my religion is *largely* misunderstood. But going back on topic, no-one really thought she was going to a "better place".



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[Thepandaman]

We're going through the nice cheerful subject of death and funerals in RE (religious education) at school at the moment. I'm an atheist, and don't believe in people going on to a better place as such, so when my grandma passed away about a year ago I was quite sad http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif


What usually chokes me up, is seeing the reaction of the loss of someone has caused to others.
same with me.

[Ness]

I've had things like that happen to me before. I can think of about five times I've had to go to the funerals of people I don't know. I almost had to go to this funeral way out in the booneys of Texas for some relative I didn't know, but i talked my mom out of it at the last minute.