Death in the Family

[Lance_Castro]

In the last year, all remaining members of my birth family died.

My younger siblings died young, last parent died too.

I’m now the last one, which is an odd feeling.

I keep thinking one of them is going to call.

 

[Viperfixer]

I know the feeling, in the same boat. Feels strange to know you are the last one.

 

[BellaBestia]

A friend of mine lost her father brother and then her mother within a 10 year span. She was 56 when her mother passed but she told me she felt like an orphan with no family, no one who intimately knew and shared her history. You can be an adult orphan. The only way to ease that feeling somewhat is to perhaps foster and nurture relationships with extended family like uncles and aunts or cousins or the family we chose like close friends.

 

[Lance_Castro]

“Remember that time we…?”

All gone. No more shared memories of a big chunk of my life.

I don’t mean to sound maudlin, it’s just odd, unexpected and stirs up feelings of a specific kind of “alone”…and also makes you think about how much time you have left!

One died of a rare kind of Cancer that hides out until it’s too far gone to treat, so of course I was certain I had it too…. That sort of thing.

 

[JuicyWife]

"Remember that time we...?"

All gone. No more shared memories of a big chunk of my life.

That really made me think. An argument that you don't even think about at first. I wish you a lot of love and the strength to look ahead anyway!

 

[Lance_Castro]

That really made me think. An argument that you don't even think about at first. I wish you a lot of love and the strength to look ahead anyway!

Thanks… yeah, exactly.

There were lots of fights i was looking forward to with my siblings we never got to have!

Lots of things I’d like to have said to each of them, but they each died unexpectedly.

I’m older than each and so i think their kids must be thinking why didnt Uncle Lance die instead? He’s older, he drinks, does all kinds of crazy shit…

Feeling guilty you outlived them all, but also thinking Ha! Beat you again! (Because siblings)

 

[Tigersman]

In 1968 while in Vietnam I lost my great grandmother who I was close to. During the next 7 years I lost both sets of grandparents. In March 2008, I lost my mother and lost my father in 2013. I still have an adopted son and a biological daughter. I had a major heart attack in 2008 where I died on the table. I've been experiencing chest pains for the last year or so. My cardiologist says my heart is okay. I have come to accept that I will die and even look forward to it. It's the natural progression of life. At age 76, mother nature keeps stepping on me.

 

[Rainblow]

Sorry Lance, my condolences.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Sorry Lance, my condolences.

Thanks. Losing them all in less than 12 Months was bizarre.

 

[Rainblow]

Thanks. Losing them all in less than 12 Months was bizarre.

Ya, it is and painful. Leaves a hole in your heart.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Anyone else here lose multiple family members back to back?

A death in the fam is always hard, how did you cope?

 

[Lance_Castro]

Not the hottest thread on Lit…. Lol.