Three... tho nearly 4
The first was my gran. I watched her die in hospital - literally take her last breaths. She didn't want to go & kept on calling for me & my mother to pull her back. She told us to take hold of her arms and legs and pull.. If anyone had come into the room, I hate to think what would have happened. Me on pulling her legs, mum pulling on her arms, gran shouting "pull harder, pull harder, I don't want to go". Grim at the time, but oddly funny now. When she finally died, it was almost an anticlimax. She just breathed in deeply, and then that was it. I kept on waiting for her to wake up/move, but she didn't. My mum left the room to call the nurse and I got the collywobbles - it was eerie that 2 minutes ago she'd been there, and now she wasn't.

The second was my sister-in-law. She was lovely. Died when she was 5 months pregnant. As she was Muslim, the burial was pretty sharpish afterwards. We took her home to wash her body (I helped). What was most distressing is that being in a 3rd world country, there was no way of saving the baby, so it died with her. I was sure when we washing her, I could see her tummy move. It was probably my imagination but it's haunted me ever since.

The third was my other half's father. He died of cancer and I went to say goodbye. I could barely recognise him - he was literally a skeleton when he died. I remembered him as a big burly chap. An absolute shock.

The fourth "almost" On a lighter note. Me & my chums were walking home from school on a v hot summer's day. Saw a bloke flat out on his face in a garden, next to a lawn mower. We figured he'd had a heart attack and so stood for ages wondering what to do. Eventually, one of us threw a stick at him. He woke up. D'oh! Still, at least we cared enough to check!

No apologies for length, but a peck for grimness. Not a happy topic. Sighs.
(parttimebabe, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 13:22, closed)

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The majority of that post is tragic, especially about your sister in law, and there being no way to save th baby


But i genuinely laughed out loud at the last bit. which will be unlikely for the rest of the stories.

i am actually kind of depressed reading all this. must get out of house!
(electrogirl no one thinks about the implications of a clown su, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 18:23, closed)