2006-09-28 19:32:44 · 15 answers · asked by ritz 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
It's like waiting for the bomb to drop. My parents are in their 90's. Luckily I got my older sistersl. But we had our parents all these years. Try to focuse on other things!
2006-09-28 19:36:20 · answer #1 · answered by regwoman123 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dear Friend Jenny just died a month ago of breast cancer, she was only 31.
She left behind 2 children, 6 and 12.
It's the most saddest thing I have ever had to endure, actually has sent me a little over the edge.
I don't know how anyone can cope with that loss.
Now on my side of the coin, both my parents are/were heroin addicts, left me with my grandparents...
Huge highs and lows and hopes and dashes...
My mother is dead now, died last Nov.
Just always try hard for your future, make really close friends and you'll be fine....
Were just on a planet flying in space, no place to go but out there...
2006-09-29 02:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by ShiftyShadyBitch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is something we all have in the back of our minds. We suppress it until the day we have to face it. My mom is 83 and my dad is 76, soon to be 77. I am the executor of the Living Trust they have formed. Tell you the truth, I hope I kick it before they do because I do not want the job. How do you dispose of 50-plus years of married life? How do you sell the dining room table at which you sat with them for decades on Christmas and Thanksgiving? How do you sell the old pickup in which you and your dad drove to the golf course so many times you can't estimate the number? How do you sell your mom's cookware that she's had since 1952 and with which you helped her make so many meals the number escapes you?
I'd trade all the money in the world to not have to face these questions, but it's Life that we all do sooner or later.
2006-09-29 02:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by christopher s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that as a person gets older they come to realize that death is a part of everyday life. It does not take away the hurt when someone dies but I believe that the older a person is the more accepting they are of death. I lost my dad when I was 17. He was 40. My mother is now 81 and I know that her time is shorter on this earth. I love her dearly, let her know she is loved, try to help her, make good memories as often as I can so as I grow older I can look back and know I had a good relationship and good memories. I didn't have many years to make good memories with my dad and to this day I wish I had done more with him than I did.
2006-09-29 02:54:19 · answer #4 · answered by HolidayGurl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must think in the present day and enjoy every minute you have with them. Spend each day like it would be the last for you with them. Say all that must be said feelings and emotion wise. Always let them know you love them, appreciate them and that you Thank them for all they have done for you. Living a life in this manner
helps when the time comes for them to depart from you. You will cry and miss them greatly but they do live on in your Heart, Soul and Mind. You will indeed feel their presence and that indeed is a wonderful thing. Live in the now, do things together with them. laugh and have fun, share these moments together. You will have beautiful memories of them when they do pass on. All these marvelous things makes the path Little easier.
2006-09-29 02:42:45 · answer #5 · answered by Lore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone who is born is bound to die one day. No human being is immortal. We must be able to accept this fact first. Once we do accept this truth, we can move on to face reality that one day our parents may die ahead of us. Many times, because of our selfishness, we want to keep our parents alive forever. We may not be aware of this. We may even think that we want to keep our parents alive because we love them. But, sometimes, it hurts them so much to stay alive especially if they are afflicted with sicknesses that require pain killers. Also, old age makes life very difficult for our parents to continue living. We must not fear the lose of our parents because we love them. When it is time to go, let God decide when it will be. Trust God and you will not fear losing parents to anything.
2006-09-29 02:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by Bong-Jeweller of San Francisco 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wrestle with that question alot myself, MY answer is spend as much time as possible with them, always say I love you, and be grateful they had long lives, some poeple lose parents in childhood, that would suck so always try to find the brightside! I fear my siblings pain as much as my own when my mother dies!
2006-09-29 02:47:35 · answer #7 · answered by katie k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is why I never want to get old , I can't imagine loosing my parents or my grandparents . I can't imagine my kids burying me at all :(
2006-09-29 02:37:10 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ Army Wife ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah just have to realize that everyone dies someday. It won't be easy but generations before have gone through it and most likely every person will have to also.
2006-09-29 02:36:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody dies.
It's the circle of life, Simba.
2006-09-29 02:36:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋