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<blockquote data-quote="pigless in VA" data-source="post: 706520" data-attributes="member: 11832"><p>We made it through . . . somehow. father in law wanted to be buried, so there was an internment service at the graveside. The other family members had been cremated, so this was the first time we experienced an actual burial. I found it somewhat disturbing that they had covered all the other grave markers with astroturf so that we were sitting over top of everyone else. We had brought flowers to lay on the other markers and had to roll with the change and just place all of them on the casket instead. </p><p></p><p>father in law also had a giant crypt thing which the casket was perched upon. It seemed like total overkill to me, but whatever made the man most comfortable. He also had spent a ton of money on having photographs permanently added to all the markers to last forever. It's hard to explain but they're made of stone somehow. His sons wouldn't have liked that, especially my husband. </p><p></p><p>I keep bursting into tears at random times. SO thinks that I am blaming myself for all of their deaths; I'm not. I know I did my best by my husband. I know that he loved me and his children. If anyone could have kept him alive, I could. I understand how mental illness stepped in and twisted his thoughts. He was unreachable even though I kept trying even in the last phone call he made to me. I was unaware at the time how his suicide would set off a family chain reaction of events. I wish they had been stronger, but I've always known they weren't. I simply feel extremely sad to have known and loved this small family who were all so terribly miserable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigless in VA, post: 706520, member: 11832"] We made it through . . . somehow. father in law wanted to be buried, so there was an internment service at the graveside. The other family members had been cremated, so this was the first time we experienced an actual burial. I found it somewhat disturbing that they had covered all the other grave markers with astroturf so that we were sitting over top of everyone else. We had brought flowers to lay on the other markers and had to roll with the change and just place all of them on the casket instead. father in law also had a giant crypt thing which the casket was perched upon. It seemed like total overkill to me, but whatever made the man most comfortable. He also had spent a ton of money on having photographs permanently added to all the markers to last forever. It's hard to explain but they're made of stone somehow. His sons wouldn't have liked that, especially my husband. I keep bursting into tears at random times. SO thinks that I am blaming myself for all of their deaths; I'm not. I know I did my best by my husband. I know that he loved me and his children. If anyone could have kept him alive, I could. I understand how mental illness stepped in and twisted his thoughts. He was unreachable even though I kept trying even in the last phone call he made to me. I was unaware at the time how his suicide would set off a family chain reaction of events. I wish they had been stronger, but I've always known they weren't. I simply feel extremely sad to have known and loved this small family who were all so terribly miserable. [/QUOTE]
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