Another wake. Another funeral. Sigh.

[madinmaryland]

[david13]

1. Hey. Look at the bright side. It wasn't yours, was it? ... Or was it??!! dc

[madinmaryland]

4. Uhh. You guys are still stuck with me here!!

:evilgrin:

[kimi]

2. I'm sorry

This summer has sucked big time.

For you, it's been awful, with this last week really really awful. I feel terrible for you, it must be so painful to lose a friend this way.

My condolences. Peace to you.

[madinmaryland]

5. Thanks.

I am actually looking forward to the wake and the funeral. It will be a way to commiserate and grieve with friend I have not seen in years. I have actually made contacts with folks I have not seen in many years.

Thanks again.

:hug:

[TK421]

3. I'm sorry...I can't stand funerals myself

I don't deal well

[madinmaryland]

6. When my mom died a month ago,

my brother, sister, and father (and me) wanted the service to be a celebration and not a tear-fest. We actually managed to pull it off. My brother, also, gave a wonderful tribute that was not a tear jerker (I'm not a public speaker and did not speak).

I have come to appreciate wakes and the way they help family and friends commiserate together.

[kimi]

7. Wow

I didn't realize your mom passed a month ago.

That's rough.

Wakes do have a way of pulling people together, I've learned that, and have appreciated in this summer especially. I attended a family funeral on the West Coast earlier this summer, and connected with family out there who I hadn't seen since my early, crazy pot-smoking, runaway years. It was good to connect. Tears fell, but they were good tears, ya know? Some of the family are goofy Tea-Party types, but that didn't even matter, it was all family, we all came together, and it was a good feeling.

Peace to you, it's a hard time to get through. Hugs.

[TK421]

9. You see, my family is very much the same way...they will laugh and drink and joke around

I don't view that moment as appropriate for that kind of behavior and even told one of my aunts so...she told me "Hey, Mark...this is how we deal...she's gone, and we're just remembering the good times we had with her, so just chill, what else you gonna do"? I still can't get past the viewing..the image can't get out of my head it's that morbid to me.

When my time comes, ( and I've told my family this ) I don't want a damn viewing...it's morbid and creepy....I remember my Dads viewing...I don't like to dwell on that image

[Parche]

8. geez

:hug::hi:

[Xipe Totec]

10. Sonnet 71

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone.

- William Shakespeare