Beautiful day for a funeral

[Squeech]

My aunt got killed in an auto accident on Friday (the good news is, apparently she died instantly), so Mrs. Squeech and I took the day off and drove down to Long Island for the funeral.

This is my father's brother's wife, still getting around at the age of 85-- within certain limitations; there was one couple in the pew next to us discussing, rather more loudly than I thought proper, how the accident was apparently her fault.

She wasn't an aunt I was super close to; I went largely to support my dad. Most of the recent family events have been deaths among his generation, so he's turned from the baby brother in his age cohort to the patriarch. Aunt May's brother is wheelchair-bound and doesn't seem to be all there, and Uncle Jack (my father's sister's husband) has Alzheimer's and rarely recognizes anybody. (All the nice guys are from his side of the family. My mother's relatives are the cranks and martinets-- the ones I take after, heh heh.) The really insidious bummer, which was spoken largely in hushed whispers, is that Jack's son has just been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers. He's my age (well, plus five) and that really sucks. (And he's the one my dad says he's really worried about.)

But it was as pleasant an occasion as such a thing can be. My sister the JW came out from Ohio and didn't try to proselytize, as she did a couple funerals ago, and her daughter is growing up intelligent and interesting (for one thing she reads all the time, unlike her folks, and she also plays clarinet).

Not trolling for sympathy here or anything, just that this is where I've been the last couple days. The Lounge changes its spots so fast that I barely recognize it this morning :shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Sorry for your loss Squeech.

But isn't your father's brother's sister, also your father's sister? Did you mean to say father's brother's wife?

Don't mean to nitpick, just trying to follow the story.

[Squeech]

3. Oops

Yes, of course. I'll edit the original text. :dunce:

[Midlodemocrat]

4. I didn't mean to nitpick, but my ADD

and OCD wouldn't let me follow the story.

Sorry about your loss. We have had the same type of thing going on in my family. Aging parents and all. It sucks.

[matcom]

2. aw shit pal

that truly SUCKS. sorry.

[stellanoir]

5. Well

you get sympathy anyways.

Sincerest condolences.

[Squeech]

9. Thank you

I've yet to lose anybody I'd have to light a yartzeit candle for, and I'm not sure how I'll take it when it happens-- which of course it will, sooner or later. I'll probably be my typical stoic self... with the occasional hopelessly inappropriate bad pun.

[Debbi801]

6. Sorry for your loss...

Getting old is tough.

[Squeech]

7. My automatic answer

Getting old is tough, but it beats the alternative.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. So sorry-my condolences

:hug: