Reading the obituaries??

naughtoj

naughtoj

Cathlete
Anybody read obituaries in the paper and start bawling? LOL. I got the Sunday paper today and accidentally hit the obituaries. Next thing you know I got 10 kleenexes in my hands and I am doing internet searches for these people to learn more about them. AND..........I have other things I should be doing!!!!

I just hate no knowing how these people died and the stories behind the people they were. Then you start reading about their families and accomplishments and what not and ON COME THE WATERWORKS!!!

Oh, and lets not even talk about the half page tribute to a one year deceased five year old from his mommy on page A3!! ;(

Ok.....off to happier things now......like laundry!!!;-)
 
Hey Janice,

I try to stay away from the articles like that in the paper. I hear about people on the news dying where they have been kidnapped and murdered. I am very sensitive like that. And you crying reading the arbituaries is only because you have a good heart!



kim
 
I do.

The LA Times honors many of the military in the obituaries. The focus is on So Cal personnel, but they also recognize other Californians. So many young. So many men & women in their 30's, 40's & 50's who are in Iraq because of National Guard duty.

This is not about lives fulfilled. I cry. What a terrible waste.

Iraq is in anarchy, facing civil war. What a mess we have made.
 
No, Debra. What a mess President Bush has made. This is HIS war, IMHO. I take no responsibility for it because I didn't vote for him.
 
As an attorney who represents estate executors, not all deaths make me sad. I have clients who die in their sleep at the age of 95 after living great, fulfilled lives. All I feel is envy! But premature death is so tragic, and really affects me.
 
I use to , but I had to quit because it was making me depressed for the rest of the day. I use to calculate how close in age some of them were to me. Nuts. Marnie
 
Ditto!! I think the older I get the more I realize have less time behind me than I have to look forward to.;(

Michele
 
Scratch that--I meant to say that the older I get the more I'm faced with the reality that more time has passed than I have to look forward to. I just can't do these complicated sentences.LOL

Michele
 
Janice, I once had the misfortune to do the obits on my general assignment beat. It should've been easy if all I had to do was take the faxes from the hospitals or funeral homes and do the who, what, when, where, why and how thing. But the editors always wanted a quote from the families. I had to call these people in mourning and invade their grief. It made me feel horrible, like a voyeur, an intruder, an amateur papparazzi of sorts. I did get my quotes and the "mini-stories" turned out nice and gave the family something better to read and remember their loved one by than the usual obit. But that turned me off news reporting forever.:(

Pinky
 
Drop that basket, put down those clothes and turn to the comics! That is always the first thing that I read when I get the paper. There is a time to cry, but don't forget there's also the time to laugh! :7
 
When we grieve are we grieving for the victim of the untimely death or for the survivors that are left behind?

For the victim, the pain or the uncertainty has ended, if you believe in an afterlife the victim is probably comfortable.

The survivors are left to fill in the "gap" left by their loved one.

If we have touched one other soul during our life we have fulfilled something, we may have not achieved our maximum potential.

Dave
 
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