I need your prayers and thoughts
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Barbara, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this time. I know it is heartbreaking. I also think you made the right, respectful, and compassionate choice with regards to not prolonging her death. It takes courage to follow through with that sometimes and I admire the families that do.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Barb please accept my condolences.
I read this posted in another forum (please let me know if you know who wrote it to give her/him credit)
How We Shall Laugh
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!'
I read this posted in another forum (please let me know if you know who wrote it to give her/him credit)
How We Shall Laugh
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!'
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Wizard Land Downunder
Posts: 2,615
Dear Barbara, my thoughts are with you and your family right now, as you grieve YOUR loss of your dear mum.
Even tho my kids and I prayed for ages, for their dad to be free of the burden his life had become for him, when it did occur they were hit hard. They grieved for losing his being in their lives, but were so thankful he was out of the hell of just existing here.
I will offer my mass for you all.
God bless
Even tho my kids and I prayed for ages, for their dad to be free of the burden his life had become for him, when it did occur they were hit hard. They grieved for losing his being in their lives, but were so thankful he was out of the hell of just existing here.
I will offer my mass for you all.
God bless
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: UK and Australia
Posts: 447
Thoughts and prayers are heading your way. Be so sad she is going.....but be so glad she came. Wishing you and your family some peace and comfort at this most difficult time. Oh My goodness I so feel for you......((((Hugs)))))) Phiz
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