dying......

wild_eyed

is there anyone here who does not know someone that has died?

sionnach

well with the world death rate still at a highish 100% despite the best efforts of medicine i doubt there'll b many positive replies to this one.

Faust

I don't know anyone who has died..

tman

Originally posted by wild_eyed
is there anyone here who does not know someone that has died?

o/
thankfully:)

well... i knew a guy that got killed in a car crash a few years ago... we were only really casual aquaintances... bloody nice guy though:(

Sangre

I was at a funeral today

Life sucks sometimes.

tba

Originally posted by Faust
I don't know anyone who has died..

Dont jink it!

Faust

Originally posted by tba
Dont jink it!

TBA!?? ARE YOU THERE!!??OH DEAR GOD!! NOOOO WHYYYYYY!???? *cries*

tba

Originally posted by Faust
TBA!?? ARE YOU THERE!!??OH DEAR GOD!! NOOOO WHYYYYYY!???? *cries*

Boo!

Ah Im only kidding Im all right

lordsippa

... wow. What timing eh?

<sigh>

Kold

Noone Ever Really Dies

weemcd

^except when their heart stops beating

D!ve^Bomb!

my nan died a few years ago, grandad died last year, a friend of mine from school died bout 6 years ago, i found out the other day that an old teacher from college died last summer... thats all, i think....... for now! bwahahaha

oh, and my best friends sisters friend, who i had met once(cant even remember his name), hung himself last year..

Hobart

Originally posted by wild_eyed
is there anyone here who does not know someone that has died?

Why do you want to know? What is the point of your post?

D!ve^Bomb!

Originally posted by Hobart
Why do you want to know? What is the point of your post?

oh ooh,, fear his wrath:mad:

cool, friends is on:D

rymus

heh, now scrubs is on... fast becoming the official Monday night TV guide thread this one

Pepe LeFrits

any boardsers died?

sound_wave

my best bud died last year. twas his bday yesterday too. life sucks sometimes.... what the hell am i on about...all the fecking time...

wild_eyed

i know lots of people that have died, i was just curious if there were people who are oblivious to grief.

oeNeo

Only people sort of close to me that have died have been grandparents, and that was when I was much younger, so no, not really actually.

Sangre

Originally posted by kaids
any boardsers died?

Oriel

any boardsers died?

Yeah, there has been at least one.

Recently, I'm sorry I wasn't at a funeral that I would (should) have been to. I would have been if I was in the area at the time, or even if I knew about it.

One thing is for sure - a funeral puts everything into perspective. Count your blessings...
I'm going through a very rough patch at the moment, and I'm just being thankful that everybody I love is alive.

Treora

Sorry for your lost, but here's a fact you may consider.

The first line of pure baby boomers will die in a mad rush over the next 10 years. These are the people born of women whose husbands died during their Great War and left them something to remember, or from families that were told that it was their civic duty to procreate (like you needed to tell 20's Ireland that) and raise a new workforce.

While the men died gradually due to various societal habits (hard laborious jobs, battered food with your pint for breakfast before going into the pensionable blue collar job) the women's social and family network instinctually kept them alive until they saw grandkids. And then medicine and a prospering Irish state with just enough social ideology have kept thousands of grannies alive in medium sized houses with 2-6 middle aged children with their own families supporting them.

These women are in their 80s and 90s and the main wave of them are about to die or have done so. Which is why Fitzgerald of Sherry-Fitzgerald stupidly wanted to force them off down the country to nursing homes and sell on their houses, for his commission.

Just an aside, the reason he (Fitzgerald) said that is because, he can see that a flood of houses plus plenty of soon-to-be developments and an entrenched construction industry will see his commission go down as with the relative cost of housing. The big thing that caused him to open that big mouth of his was an uncontrollable ECB rate which could rip this economy to shreds. Don't worry Bertie has to buy another couple of Lithuanian castles so it will be at least 5 months before he lets that cat in the hat go wild.

The upside is that there will be a glut of knock on from apartments and first time buyers’ houses on the market once granny finds a better house.

Crash

what is it about this weekend and people posting threads with the word "death" in the title?

like sangre, i was at a funeral today. and at the graveside to see the coffin lowered.

that this world can take life as indiscriminately as it does is pure and simply wrong.

Funky

I was also at a funeral today... probably the saddest one ive ever been to

lordsippa

I was there too... didn't follow to the graveyard... I dunno... couldn't face it. It was so depressing... The saddest I was ever at.

angelofdeath

such a depressing thread, em... my grandparents both died within about a month of each other bout two months ago, apart from that no, noone close to me has bit it recently

Originally posted by lordsippa
I was there too... didn't follow to the graveyard... I dunno... couldn't face it. It was so depressing... The saddest I was ever at.

Ditto was thinking of going to the burial but felt in the end i couldnt hack it.

halenger

I went also...

Didn't follow on to graveyard. I should hope to visit sometime.

I didn't know him well but I should've and wish I had.

LegacyUser

the dead don't mind being dead,
don't mean that in a facetious way

Sev

any boardsers died?

Sisob, passed away on friday. I too was at the funeral, I too was at the burial. A good friend of mine. Lets not talk about death.

ZENER

Quote:

Sisob, passed away on friday.

Respect

Tinky

wild_eyed

sorry for your loss, if u dont mind me asking, how did he die?he hadn't posted in a while.

tinkerbell

The one thing about funerals, that you might forget who arrived to give you some support, but it's always the ones who don't turn up that you'll always remember.

When my granda died a four years ago, I was a total wreck coz I was very close to him, and sometimes tiz difficult to talk to family because they are so close to the situation like you are. I remember sitting alone on the stairs in my nana's house, and jus wishing that my two best pals who had lived next door to me all my life would show up, or even ring. But they never did.

My aunty died then in September 2003 and the same two never showed up (the two lads were at home as well, and twas only over the road from the funeral home) - I got a text from one of them in December saying "sorry to hear about your aunt, I didn't know what to say". A few months later!

I'm sorry, but I jus can't understand why people refuse to go into a funeral home and give the family some support. I know when my uncle died, his school friends couldn't come in because it would upset them too much. But for people who didn't know the deceased, and knew the family, then they have no excuse. It jus strikes me as bein selfish. I know people might say "but I don't like goin into a funeral home, it creeps me out". Well it ain't a time for you to be thinkin of yourself, when so many people are in pain over one of their loved ones passing on. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's jus the conclusion that I've come to.

Sorry to hear a lot of you knew people that passed on over the weekend, I hope you're doing okay, and are gettin some support from family n friends.

seamus

Originally posted by tinkerbell
My aunty died then in September 2003 and the same two never showed up (the two lads were at home as well, and twas only over the road from the funeral home) - I got a text from one of them in December saying "sorry to hear about your aunt, I didn't know what to say". A few months later!

I'm sorry, but I jus can't understand why people refuse to go into a funeral home and give the family some support. I know when my uncle died, his school friends couldn't come in because it would upset them too much. But for people who didn't know the deceased, and knew the family, then they have no excuse. It jus strikes me as bein selfish. I know people might say "but I don't like goin into a funeral home, it creeps me out". Well it ain't a time for you to be thinkin of yourself, when so many people are in pain over one of their loved ones passing on. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's jus the conclusion that I've come to.

They're probably like me. I'm one of those people who doesn't know what to say. You don't need to say anything most of the time, just be there, but that makes no difference. I would say a lot of men are quite similar. If someone is unhappy or upset, men can get very confused and disoriented if you will, when there is absolutely no solution they can ever offer to help you. It's just part of our nature. Very often for friends, I'll turn up to funerals, let them know that I'm there (come up and shake hands or whatever), and then keep my distance. Maybe I don't like having to deal with other people being unhappy or something, I've no idea.
I also have tendency to start laughing when I'm relaying bad news that has particularly upset me. :dunno:

tinkerbell

Yeah, I know what you're sayin - but that's fine! You said you'd let them know that you'd be there for them, etc. etc. Sometimes people don't bother showin up at all, not callin you, or anything. I've got over it now, but at the time, it really upset me that two of my oldest friends (been goin over to their house since I was 3 years old) weren't there for me when I needed 'em most.

BoobeR

death is definately the most depressing thing anyone can go though i lost my grandmother not too long ago, also the fact she lived next door and i was in there a LOT didnt help

herbie747

Originally posted by kaids
any boardsers died?

"AngleWhore" and "Mordeth" died, but they rose again because they are immortal dark overlords of Khan.