>>38475
Thank you bro, sincerely.
>>38479
Relatively, yes. It was lung cancer that metastasized and wound up in her pelvis and her brain. It all happened within a week or so. She was well drugged for the last couple of days where it was really bad. I was able to speak with her on the phone but I didn't get in to see her in time.
>>38480
Interpersonal relationships suck man, regardless of with whom they may be shared. Mine was not always awesome to be around, but neither am I.
It is an individual thing, I think.
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We all come and go. Simple as that.
Huggles
Everything will be ok.
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I visited my mom at the hospital wednesday. Seeing our loved ones suffer is never pleasant. My sympathies.
I find it very hard to take comfort in religious ideas about death. However, I have run across something that I do find soothing at times like this. This little speech was given by Aaron Freeman on NPR.
"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy is created in the universe and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, ever vibration, every BTU of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid the energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point, you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off you like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue in the heat of our own lives.
And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy is still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone. You're just less orderly. Amen."
So, even though your mom is gone, she's still here. You've got my sympathies. Dealing with the loss of a loved one is never easy.
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I know that feel bro, stay strong.
>>40685
Hell muh chub, I am sorry to hear it. What brings her there? Is she getting better?
You sent that Coleman tool to my moms place, just between the two of us. :-)
>>40689
Tank you Stray. I am like that as well. Strangely comforting words there.
I will share them the next time a loved one/friend is experiencing a loss. I hope that it speaks to them like it did for me.
>>40694
>>40684
thank you. it is getting a bit easier now.
>>40730
Indeed, it is me. I'm sorry bro, it sucks. It is like an invite to a shitty club, ya know?
"Welcome, here is your complimentary nut kick. Have a nice day."
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People come, and go.
Huggles n shit