You 'feels' you lose

banie01

Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »

My mother had a transplant about 8 years ago. She wanted to get in touch with the donors family but was told she couldn't. However she was allowed to write a letter to the family which, IMO, is enough. You've no idea how either side would react, the only way of knowing is by contacting them and as was said above, by then it's too late.

+1, We donated my wife's organs and we still have the letters from the recepients.
My son and I and I look at them often and talk about how even though we lost his Mam....
That her choice to donate meant that across the country there are 4 other families who have their Mam, Dad, Son, Daughter, brother or sister because his Mam made a brave choice and a huge gift.
Her choice meant 4 other families have the ****storm of grief postponed and a chance to build many more memories.
The letters from the recipients are a treasured gift, but I would never want to knowingly meet them or know who they are.
Knowing who they are would bring expectations, and apart from them appreciating the 2nd chance they have been given....
I never ever want to anything else about them.
We probably have met at the yearly organ donor/recipients mass but even in that setting, it is a celebration of life, remembering those lost and the lives that loss helped save/prolong.

I think finding the recipient and listening to the heart, is unethical, unhealthy and odd....
Its no longer her daughters Heart, its the recipients 2nd chance.....
Let them have that chance with as little guilt or expectation placed upon them as possible

major bill

Saw a link for this film on the Baaaaaaaww thread, lost big time on this film. easily one of the saddest films i've watched...Beautiful movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mztpj06ykyQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XuJEmSTHow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mdYPBIuhJY

allanb49

major bill wrote: »

Saw a link for this film on the Baaaaaaaww thread, lost big time on this film. easily one of the saddest films i've watched...Beautiful movie

....

don't watch

do not want

one of the saddest most gut wrenching films you will ever see

Ace Attorney

This was in the news the other day, made me have the feels

The obituary for a 99-year-old veteran with no family requested that any available soldiers attend his funeral. The Internet responded.


On October 25th, Harold Jellicoe Percival died in his nursing home in Lancashire, UK, at the age of 99. Percival was a veteran of WWII, and being single, he had no family to attend his funeral service. So the funeral home included in his obituary (below), a request for any servicemen in the area to attend.



Not content to let this soldier's memorial attendance be reliant on devotees to old media, the Internet did what it could to make sure the service got packed.
The image was posted online and quickly went viral on Twitter. A reddit post calling on reddit users to attend was upvoted to the top of the front page for most of the weekend. The funeral was held today, Remembrance Day in the UK, and according to BBC News, "About a hundred people were inside [the service] with another 400 standing silently outside in the rain.







Percival was a member of the RAF, and served as ground crew on Operation Chastise in May 1943, also known as the "Dambuster Raids" as the target of the raids were German dams.

:-'(

Ken.

^^^^Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.-Winston Churchill.

certifiedcrepe

Very heavy stuff.. Holding back the tears. What an amazing man with very powerful words.

itac

certifiedcrepe wrote: »

Very heavy stuff.. Holding back the tears. What an amazing man with very powerful words.

wow...that hit me like a punch to the gut. So sincere and so so visceral. Thanks for sharing it...

herisson

Make a wish foundation make a boys wish come true. They turn San Francisco into Gotham and 5 year old Miles into Batman

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-make-a-wish-foundation

Iano_128

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY-d46-gPMI#t=73

Right in the feels!!

manlad

http://www.upworthy.com/this-kid-just-died-what-he-left-behind-is-wondtacular-rip?g=2

A V A

i found this was the one that hit me most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKZ4pdSU-s

Goddamnit. My own OCD and own pedantic nature made me sure that video had been posted before, so I went through the thread to check. And now there's man tears. Damn this thread. Damn it!

Also, not sure if this was posted previously, but the user Argie, posted this extremely beautiful and moving poem over in the Creative Writing section a few years ago.

banie01

Deleted User wrote: »

Also, not sure if this was posted previously, but the user Argie, posted this extremely beautiful and moving poem over in the Creative Writing section a few years ago.

That poem has left me in a blubbering heap

Cocolola

Man finds his dog alive after tornado *sniff*











Story taken from here.

foxyboxer

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden

Ihatecuddles

^^

Scudges Da

Hope this works....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WNfvuJr9164&list=TLtk8bvPliXjFu78Yfv6ucERrky43it6uO

Right in the feels!!!:)

Celly Smunt

is somebody cutting onions in here?

Ace Attorney

Duno if its the hangover, but jaysus these are some great kids
Prepare to have the feels

certifiedcrepe

Sorry but I can't stop crying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adzkOv0vvDI
Mod: Family Guy Spoiler

Sofaspud

Long, but full of feels:

certifiedcrepe

Can't remember if this was posted before! This will always have me in tears.

keithsfleet

Ha I've made almost the exact sane speech to my mother a long time ago, I'd obviously seen this and used it as context.

Crazy the stuff you try to forget.

Raminahobbin

Ahhhh jesus Lovely lovely idea, but so incredably heartbreaking. A man who lost his wife to cancer recreated his wedding photos with their daughter.

seamus

Raminahobbin wrote: »

Ahhhh jesus Lovely lovely idea, but so incredably heartbreaking. A man who lost his wife to cancer recreated his wedding photos with their daughter.
http://cdn.visualnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Moving-without-mom-2.jpg

I need to stop chopping these damn onions in work...

Ace Attorney

Raminahobbin wrote: »

Ahhhh jesus Lovely lovely idea, but so incredably heartbreaking. A man who lost his wife to cancer recreated his wedding photos with their daughter.

twas the one where they were dancing in the room that broke me

Calhoun

Raminahobbin wrote: »

Ahhhh jesus Lovely lovely idea, but so incredably heartbreaking. A man who lost his wife to cancer recreated his wedding photos with their daughter.

Lost so hard, dont know why i clicked into this thread lovely idea but so sad.

NegativeCreep

Am I the only one who thought that was, like, weird?

certifiedcrepe

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Am I the only one who thought that was, like, weird?

You're probably not the only one, but it definitely tugged at my heart.

Wabbit Ears

I have literally thousands of pictures of my daughter, I would never recreate my wedding snaps with her in the place of my wife... WHAT THE ACTUAL FÚCK?

The relationship I have with my wife is completely and utterly different to that of my daughter and my wedding day held all sorts of meanings in emotional spheres my daughter doesn't sit in.

Flying Abruptly

x Purple Pawprints x

Don't think this has been posted..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xg2G_oINqc

whiskeyman

Raminahobbin wrote: »

Ahhhh jesus Lovely lovely idea, but so incredably heartbreaking. A man who lost his wife to cancer recreated his wedding photos with their daughter.

game over for me

A V A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk

Mousewar

I bet that guy wished he'd asked for more than socks and jocks.

Gokei

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/two-years-after-she-passed-away-a-woman-gives-her-family-an?bffb&s=mobile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sObhOXwCbrg

banie01

Just came across this on my newsfeed
http://www.today.com/holidayguide/years-after-death-wife-gives-husband-final-christmas-gift-2D11792103

And its broken me I've lost so many times on this bloody thread but I keep coming back!
I'm a widower myself, and this struck very close to home for me.
The pain of loss changes over time, from the grief and agony of the bereavement...
To the guilt that comes when you start feeling happiness again, because the person you lost isn't there to share it...
To the stomach turning, vomit inducing guilt that being in a new relationship brings...
Guilt because you feel like you are cheating on not 1, but 2 people that you care about
The fear of the person you are with now, ever feeling 2nd best but not wanting to forget or gloss over the love you have for the woman who went before....
For the 1st time in 7yrs my son and I are sharing our Christmas with someone, someone who has become very important to both of us and who will hopefully enjoy her time with us
The gesture by his wife is so lovely, it really shows how deeply she loved her husband that she would plan so far ahead and give her blessing from beyond.

Yearning4Stormy

That's lovely, Banie

Related (and somewhat extended) article here -> http://www.her.ie/family/two-years-after-her-death-one-woman-gives-an-amazing-gift-to-her-family/

God bless you, I hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year together.

DazMarz

x Purple Pawprints x

osarusan

I'm guessing it's very likely this has been posted before, but not going through 300+ posts...if it has, apologies.

ericl

This paper was turned in by a 2nd grader with Autism.

He deserves an A+.

csm

Dyslexia maybe? Not autism.

Obligpic

seamus

No, autism. He alphabetised the letters within the words, misunderstanding the question.

I'm not sure if the actual story is true; it seems like a mistake that could be made any 8 year old, but either way I'd give them full marks.

csm

Ah right, my bad. I'm clearly not high functioning...

flutterflye

^ Sounds like my son (who has autism). He takes things REALLY literally, and I could definitely see him doing something like that!
He'd be the opposite of dyslexic (if it were in fact possible to be opposite to dyslexic!) - He is an excellent reader and speller.

A V A

ericl wrote: »

This paper was turned in by a 2nd grader with Autism.

He deserves an A+.

i dont get why he would ??

ibarelycare

A V A wrote: »

i dont get why he would ??

Read a few posts above.

A V A

ibarelycare wrote: »

Read a few posts above.

kinda failling to see why he would deserve an A?