Passed on

[All In The Mind]

Who, if any you of you colourful characters, has went through the loss of a close family member?

I'm thinking more shock deaths etc then people dying from old age.

This is purely out of interest, plus my brother died not so long back.

 

[SophiaGrace]

I had a close friend die a little over 2 years ago...

 

[discolemonade]

Sorry for your loss =/

My uncle died because the doctors ****** up during surgery, it wasnt expected, and it was tragic.

My Great Uncle died right out of the blue, he wasnt sick or anything, just his time. What's interesting is two weeks previous, he was teaching a Biblical class and he told his students, 'I feel in my heart that every question I have for God has been answered, and i'm ready to be taken.' (To heaven, obviously.)

 

[dead]

my mom, about a month ago.
heh.

 

[shells]

I had two very close half-cousins that had brain tumors and passed. They were both around my age, and died within five years of each other. One was nine, and the other was fourteen. Apparently cancer is genetic among that side of the family.

My step grandpa also developed cancer, and he was living with us at the time. He passed in 2002.

Mom passed away almost three years ago. I miss her.

 

[SophiaGrace]

I had two very close half-cousins that had brain tumors and passed. They were both around my age, and died within five years of each other. One was nine, and the other was fourteen. Apparently cancer is genetic among that side of the family.

My step grandpa also developed cancer, and he was living with us at the time. He passed in 2002.

Mom passed away almost three years ago. I miss her.

I would think that cancer screening annually would be in order for you since it seems to be something that is genetic in your family. Has your general practitioner advised you to do so?

 

[Danielle]

my mom passed away when i was 11- liver damage

my friend passed while we were in the 7th grade- leukemia

lost both my grandfathers when i was in the 9th grade- both to cancer

lost my aunt, uncle and cousin when i was in the 11th grade - car accident

my nana passed... due to old age..... 4 years ago

My aunt is very sick, as well as a very old friend that is exactly my age, so they may be losing their battles to cancer.... i keep my fingers crossed tho!

 

[Nina]

I lost my mom and dad four years ago in a car accident and the three month later my brother in a skiing accident.

 

[dead]

alonewanderer, shells, Danielle, Nina.... i'm so sorry for your losses... it seems like most people here went through terrible things

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how do you deal with it?

 

[shells]

I had two very close half-cousins that had brain tumors and passed. They were both around my age, and died within five years of each other. One was nine, and the other was fourteen. Apparently cancer is genetic among that side of the family.

My step grandpa also developed cancer, and he was living with us at the time. He passed in 2002.

Mom passed away almost three years ago. I miss her.

I would think that cancer screening annually would be in order for you since it seems to be something that is genetic in your family. Has your general practitioner advised you to do so?

Although the situation sucks, I don't think I would have those genes because they were my half-cousins. You see, my grandpa remarried - it's my step grandma that must be the carrier for it.

My mom had tumors in her feet and spine, but they were non-malignant (that I know of). She kept a lot of secrets from me regarding her health.

 

[SophiaGrace]

I had two very close half-cousins that had brain tumors and passed. They were both around my age, and died within five years of each other. One was nine, and the other was fourteen. Apparently cancer is genetic among that side of the family.

My step grandpa also developed cancer, and he was living with us at the time. He passed in 2002.

Mom passed away almost three years ago. I miss her.

I would think that cancer screening annually would be in order for you since it seems to be something that is genetic in your family. Has your general practitioner advised you to do so?

Although the situation sucks, I don't think I would have those genes because they were my half-cousins. You see, my grandpa remarried - it's my step grandma that must be the carrier for it.

My mom had tumors in her feet and spine, but they were non-malignant (that I know of). She kept a lot of secrets from me regarding her health.

Well that's good you probably don't have those nasty genetics then.

Sorry your mom kept secrets from you, maybe she didn't want to worry you. *hug*

 

[lomojojo]

My daddy died suddenly of a heart attack when I was 15 and my mom died in 2002 to pancreatic cancer.

I am sorry for all of your losses guys

 

[lomojojo]

Thank you. It was really traumatic to see her go so quickly. The darn tumor spread really fast. She only spent two weeks in the hospital and in that time she lost 20 lbs. The doctors released her from the hospital I had hopes but she passed the same night she got home. But I think she wanted to go, she was very lonely and depressed. I miss them though.

 

[eris]

In my family I have had my grandparents die, and my cousin killed himself, but I am really not close to my family and these things did not really hurt me that much. ( they really were not good people)

but

In 99 a very good friend of mine was murdered. It was officially declared "road rage" and they never figured out who shot him but there was more to it. He was messin around with a dangerous girl

And in 04 a friend drove off the side of a hill and broke his neck and died.

Both of these guys were under 25

These two things still bother me a lot, and I think about them often.

 

[SophiaGrace]

I had a close friend die a little over 2 years ago...

He died because he fainted after he got off a subway train and fell down onto the tracks. He didn't regain consciousness in time before the oncoming train.

He had told me he was sick the night before, we had talked the night before he died.

He was coming home from college in NYC to his home in brooklyn when he died.

Please be extra extra careful around subway platforms. Stay away from the edge until the train pulls up. I beg you, please. They are nothing to toy around with or act careless around.