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More_Cowbell

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7. The best we can hope for

Reply to samnsara (Original post)

Mon Sep 25, 2017, 06:48 PM

Sep 2017

Is to die peacefully at home, with loved ones around us. If there's also someone wishing us well as we pass, that's a bonus.

You're doing a good thing.

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Im sitting in my living room waiting for my neighbor to die.... [View all] samnsara Sep 2017 OP

Aw, I'm so sorry. hamsterjill Sep 2017 #1

thank you so much...when my husband was working out of town.. samnsara Sep 2017 #15

RIP, Mr. Bill from a fellow TN native. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #2

my dtr lived in Tenn for 10 years and Bill would get my mail for us and.. samnsara Sep 2017 #14

Nice message to honor Bill. Frustratedlady Sep 2017 #3

thats a nice sentiment...thank you.. samnsara Sep 2017 #9

Kindness onethatcares Sep 2017 #4

damn lung cancer...he was a die hard smoker but he wasnt going to .. samnsara Sep 2017 #10

Very sorry. sinkingfeeling Sep 2017 #5

thank you.... samnsara Sep 2017 #11

So sad. Too young. But I hope he lived the life he wanted, to the extent Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #6

you know i think he did. I always enjoyed his stories about.. samnsara Sep 2017 #12

Sounds just like my dad. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #16

+1. :) nt Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #19

I have in laws in Wares Valley(Sevierville County) they dewsgirl Sep 2019 #21

The best we can hope for More_Cowbell Sep 2017 #7

thank you... samnsara Sep 2017 #13

Im sorry I didnt reply earlier. Bill died about 5 pm pacific.... samnsara Sep 2017 #8

RIP kanda Sep 2017 #17

There wouldn't be emergency vehicles. Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2017 #18

You know, I have a feeling Bill would have written something similar about you, were your fates WinkyDink Sep 2017 #20