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Bereavement

akraven

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3. We were there when my dad-in-love passed.

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 12:51 PM

Jan 2019

It was expected; he wasn't in pain (thanks, good doctors) but fading.

We recorded (he didn't know). His last words, before deep unconsciousness, were "Tell Margaret I'll be there soon".

Margaret was his wife of 60 years who'd passed 3 years before.

I still cry, and that was 10 years ago.

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"What People Actually Say Before They Die" [View all] orleans Jan 2019 OP

That's interesting... Uben Jan 2019 #1

👀 underpants Jan 2019 #2

We were there when my dad-in-love passed. akraven Jan 2019 #3

My late sister started talking about "getting out of here" susanna Mar 2019 #4

thank you for sharing this orleans Mar 2019 #5

Thank you for reading it. susanna Mar 2019 #6