How are we getting through it?

[d_Guy]

Sorry to learn of your loss HH. May she be at peace and comfort to you.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Condolences sir.
Remember the good times.

[Heedless Horseman]

Thanks All. Cousin And Wife extremely Helpful.
On practical note... the MASS of outdated papers accumulated is horrendous! Trying to find 'important' docs...
So clear out old paperwork now and then! 

[pierre the shy]

Thanks All. Cousin And Wife extremely Helpful.
On practical note... the MASS of outdated papers accumulated is horrendous! Trying to find 'important' docs...
So clear out old paperwork now and then! 

Sorry for your loss HH, its never easy when parents depart this life, both of mine have passed on (2015 and 2020).

Going through my fathers stuff we found he had kept all his payslips from when he started work in the 1940's onwards as well as the letter written by my mum's father just after the war demanding to know what my father's intentions towards his daughter were...evidently he was forbidden to see her again until mum's father was satisfied with my dad's bona fides! Times have changed a bit since then       

[Orcs]

Times have changed a bit since then       

Have they?

Told my girls to make sure their boyfriends new I had a Shotgun, a Spade and a big garden to bury them in, if they did not treat them right.   

[FierceKitty]

Yes, but these days a boyfriend who says "Let's wait until we're married" will have girls complaining he isn't treating them right.

Thank God.

[Orcs]

Yes, but these days a boyfriend who says "Let's wait until we're married" will have girls complaining he isn't treating them right.

Thank God.

I was not looking for that level of behavior, just treating them right.

[Matt J]

Condolences HH, lost my own dad a couple of weeks ago. Dementia for 5 years then massive stroke last November, survived a couple of painful weeks before letting go. Care home staff shocking, rang me with the news then next breath asked me to arrange collection straight away as "he'd already been here a few hours and they'd like the body gone now please".
Use 'tell us one service', apparently very good. Cant vouch yet as no agency come back to me!

[Raider4]

. . . until mum's father was satisfied with my dad's bona fides!

Bit personal!

(Fnarr, fnarr)

[d_Guy]

@Raider4  I just looked up your ISO certification. Who knew? Brilliant!

[Raider4]

[Steve J]

I spent a pleasant day in the garden, which after a month of wet weather, was an absolute treat. Bulbs coming up left, right and centre.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Lilac trees pruned, apple trees too.

[Heedless Horseman]

Graves. Now, will apologise as 'macabre' and sad subject... but something never thought about.'Family Plot' with grandparents interred'... was desired destination for Ma and myself. Thought it a '4 berth'... and cost £30 in 1966. BUT... plot had a 50yr 'expiry date' for use. Can renew... but for more than £1K! Cemetery also says only room for One! 'Luckily'? Ma booked adjacent plot in '99 for other family members... not used yet... but would need new Stone... and not our 'des res'! Will probably put Ma in with Her Dad and Mam... Me... will have to see. Very Few seem to go for Burial, now... but a consideration for those with 'Family Plot' .
Family and Funeral Directors giving great support... (so don't worry about that)... but, Not something that you want to find out at a bad  time.

Many of us are ageing... and may have elderly parents... so thought to advise about 'shelf life' on a grave.   

[Ithoriel]

"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes." - Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons

"The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay" - Johnny Mandel, Michael B Altman

Macabre and sad perhaps, HH, but an inevitable event none the less.

Put me in a cardboard box and burn me or dump me on the council tip. When I'm gone it won't matter to me.

Funerals are for the living not the dead.

[kustenjaeger]

Even my mother was cremated back in 1987 and my father in 2004. My in-laws were both buried but I think both my wife and I will go for cremation (hopefully not for quite a while yet!).

Edward

[FierceKitty]

Mince up my remains and put them in a trout stream.

[Orcs]

Mince up my remains and put them in a trout stream.

Please, you will put me off eating Trout

[FierceKitty]

There isn't an atom in either of us that hasn't lost count of the alimentary systems it's been through.

[Heedless Horseman]

There isn't an atom in either of us that hasn't lost count of the alimentary systems it's been through.

This position must be challenged, Sir
Atomic Particles are long proven in their ability to count numerically  with great acccuracy. This is the fundamental basis for much of Atomic Theory in relation to Radioactive Decay... and hence dating of artifacts, etc.

Do publish Your Paper on the theory to which you adhere, Sir.
I feel sure that the Scientific Community will be able to poke holes in it.