Eulogies and Obituaries

[rekane]

This is a thread for anyone to mourn their losses publicly.

The eulogy or obituary can be about anything or anyone.

Here's mine for today:

My Dignity​

born 1965 - died 1969, 1975, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2002, and multiple times since

My Dignity was a rare, fragile creature that was prone to expire in any brief moment. However, it was tenacious, dying many ignoble deaths, only to be resurrected.

It sustained itself with false bravado, being fed by intellect and kudos. It's panache was a joy to behold. Usually when it's swagger was at it's peak, My Dignity would suffer some small wound, languish in misery for a bit, then succumb.

Now that it seems to be gone for good, I miss My Dignity every single day.

 

[Flaming_Verbs]

This is a thread for anyone to mourn their losses publicly.

The eulogy or obituary can be about anything or anyone.

Here's mine for today:

My Dignity​

born 1965 - died 1969, 1975, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1997, 2000, 2002, and multiple times since

My Dignity was a rare, fragile creature that was prone to expire in any brief moment. However, it was tenacious, dying many ignoble deaths, only to be resurrected.

It sustained itself with false bravado, being fed by intellect and kudos. It's panache was a joy to behold. Usually when it's swagger was at it's peak, My Dignity would suffer some small wound, languish in misery for a bit, then succumb.

Now that it seems to be gone for good, I miss My Dignity every single day.

Interesting. I think I see your Dignity lurking somewhere behind you. Turn around too quickly and you might scare it away. I used my black magic to resurrect it!

 

[GrimsPet]

S.J. Stackhouse​

Born 1974, Died 2001

Our time chatting was always welcomed, you were a wonderful person. We had both dreamed of meeting each other and being together until that fateful day in January when you didn't show up online for our scheduled meeting and it took me three months of unanswered emails and researching to find your obituary online. No one on your end knew to contact me so I had to find out on my own.

Our time Roleplaying, talking about our lives and loves and loving each other the only way we could at the time is something I will always remember. The stories you used to write me were always arousing and always made me desire to write. You were an inspiration, a friend, and a lover.

May the skies in Minneapolis always shine blue for you and the stars always trace your name.

Rest in peace Love.

 

[rekane]

S.J. Stackhouse​

Born 1974, Died 2001

Our time chatting was always welcomed, you were a wonderful person. We had both dreamed of meeting each other and being together until that fateful day in January when you didn't show up online for our scheduled meeting and it took me three months of unanswered emails and researching to find your obituary online. No one on your end knew to contact me so I had to find out on my own.

Our time Roleplaying, talking about our lives and loves and loving each other the only way we could at the time is something I will always remember. The stories you used to write me were always arousing and always made me desire to write. You were an inspiration, a friend, and a lover.

May the skies in Minneapolis always shine blue for you and the stars always trace your name.

Rest in peace Love.

I am truly sorry for your loss.

I know it has been a while, but I also know the pain can come quickly back to the surface with the hearing of a song, the sight of a book title, sometimes just a word uttered.

I hope time has tempered this. I know in my own losses that time has helped me smile more often than cry when I remember.

Thank you so much for sharing your relationship here and your thoughts about someone significant in your life.

 

[GrimsPet]

I am truly sorry for your loss.

I know it has been a while, but I also know the pain can come quickly back to the surface with the hearing of a song, the sight of a book title, sometimes just a word uttered.

I hope time has tempered this. I know in my own losses that time has helped me smile more often than cry when I remember.

Thank you so much for sharing your relationship here and your thoughts about someone significant in your life.

Thank you Rekane. Yeah it hurt for a bit. The only thing that made the blow a bit less was that I had not met him face to face yet. However he was still an integral part of my life as a friend and an online lover. He was taken from the world to soon. I remember he wrote me a little story that I treasured. It was simply a couple pages. We often did online Roleplay and he would post under the name Raghnall.

I knew the night he didn't show up that something was drastically wrong because this guy defined punctuality to perfection. If he told me he would be online by 5:30 Eastern, he was, sometimes I could literally time a watch to it. He was one of the few men I encountered before I met Master that didn't mind that I am a BBW, and didn't mind my eccentricities.

So after a week of no responses to emails I knew something dreadful had happened but I wasn't sure what. For a couple months I walked around with that nagging voice in my head that said he was dead - but I wasn't sure. Finally after a few fruitless attempts I found an online version of a Newspaper from Minneapolis - St. Paul, and I went back to that time frame and I found his Obit. It was extremely painful. I believe I did not go to classes the next day, I just couldn't do it. The obit never listed how he died, but knowing he had a commute to do each day I figured it had to have been a car accident since I knew him to be a physically healthy man.

I believe S.J. was put into my life to show me that there are good men out there after all the things I had already been through. If I hadn't learned from him that good men exist, I'm not sure that I would even know Master right now.

 

[marieR19]

Arthur "Jim" Sisk​

Born 1953, Died July 19th 2007

Dad, I know we weren't always on the best of terms, and at times I thought I hated you. I didn't, I never hated *you*, I hated the things that you did.

And now that you are gone, I would give anything in the world to take back all those missed-chances, all those times we didn't see each other, all those times we were too busy or too stubborn to make time for each other. It wasn't just you, I did that too, I realize that now. And I can't believe the time we wasted. Time that we can never have back, memories lost that we can never make up for.

I miss you so much. You weren't a model husband or a model father, but you are *my* father and I miss you every single day. I cherish the memories that I do have, and try to think about those good times, but goodness I miss you.

Love you daddy

 

[graceanne]

Now that it seems to be gone for good, I miss My Dignity every single day.

ROFL!!!

 

[graceanne]

My cousin and her husband, drowned last November. They had been married 15 years, exactly. A wave knocked my cousin into the ocean, and her husband jumped in to save her. They found her body that night, and his two weeks later. They're buried together a foot from our grandpa and two feet from our uncle. I miss her daily.

 

[Etoile]

I knew this thread was going to come in handy as soon as I saw it.

We found our little boo today, thanks to a neighbor who called. It was not the answer we would have liked, but it was an answer.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/5991241254_da01cb01da_z.jpg

 

[shy slave]

I knew this thread was going to come in handy as soon as I saw it.

We found our little boo today, thanks to a neighbor who called. It was not the answer we would have liked, but it was an answer.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/5991241254_da01cb01da_z.jpg

Really sorry to hear about your kitty.

xx

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

My belief and fear that I would never be able to find a job that I could mold around my priorities of a nurturing a new career and creative endeavours while still establishing a foundation for my new post divorce financial life died today. Though in some ways they will be missed because they have been with me for quite some time, I am also releived because they were horrible roommates with their downer gloomy moods, never helped with housechores, and kept eating my ice cream. Please take comfort (as I do) that wherever they are now, they have only eachother for company.

*whistles TAPS*

 

[IrisAlthea]

My belief and fear that I would never be able to find a job that I could mold around my priorities of a nurturing a new career and creative endeavours while still establishing a foundation for my new post divorce financial life died today. Though in some ways they will be missed because they have been with me for quite some time, I am also releived because they were horrible roommates with their downer gloomy moods, never helped with housechores, and kept eating my ice cream. Please take comfort (as I do) that wherever they are now, they have only eachother for company.

*whistles TAPS*

That's great! May they never get to eat anyone else's ice cream.

 

[EbersMoll]

My belief and fear that I would never be able to find a job that I could mold around my priorities of a nurturing a new career and creative endeavours while still establishing a foundation for my new post divorce financial life died today. Though in some ways they will be missed because they have been with me for quite some time, I am also releived because they were horrible roommates with their downer gloomy moods, never helped with housechores, and kept eating my ice cream. Please take comfort (as I do) that wherever they are now, they have only eachother for company.

*whistles TAPS*

Very occasionally one hears of things that deserve to be buried. Housework shirking, ice cream stealing, beliefs and fears fall squarely into that category.

Well done and best wishes for the future.

 

[rekane]

I am afraid I have not been a good hostess on this thread.
Life has not given me much time lately.

Arthur "Jim" Sisk​

Born 1953, Died July 19th 2007

Dad, I know we weren't always on the best of terms, and at times I thought I hated you. I didn't, I never hated *you*, I hated the things that you did.

And now that you are gone, I would give anything in the world to take back all those missed-chances, all those times we didn't see each other, all those times we were too busy or too stubborn to make time for each other. It wasn't just you, I did that too, I realize that now. And I can't believe the time we wasted. Time that we can never have back, memories lost that we can never make up for.

I miss you so much. You weren't a model husband or a model father, but you are *my* father and I miss you every single day. I cherish the memories that I do have, and try to think about those good times, but goodness I miss you.

Love you daddy

Marie,
I get it - the conflicting emotions and thoughts concerning your father, and the sadness for lost opportunities to make new memories. I have a similar path.
I am honestly sorry for your loss. I know you will find a way to make opportunities to honor the relationship you had/have.

My cousin and her husband, drowned last November. They had been married 15 years, exactly. A wave knocked my cousin into the ocean, and her husband jumped in to save her. They found her body that night, and his two weeks later. They're buried together a foot from our grandpa and two feet from our uncle. I miss her daily.

Graceanne,
Wow. What an awful tragedy, but what an example of heroism. And love.
Good thoughts for you and your family.

I knew this thread was going to come in handy as soon as I saw it.

We found our little boo today, thanks to a neighbor who called. It was not the answer we would have liked, but it was an answer.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/5991241254_da01cb01da_z.jpg

Oh Etoile,
This broke my heart!
I'm glad you don't have to wonder, but it sucks so much.
Love for you & Boo.

 

[rekane]

My belief and fear that I would never be able to find a job that I could mold around my priorities of a nurturing a new career and creative endeavours while still establishing a foundation for my new post divorce financial life died today. Though in some ways they will be missed because they have been with me for quite some time, I am also releived because they were horrible roommates with their downer gloomy moods, never helped with housechores, and kept eating my ice cream. Please take comfort (as I do) that wherever they are now, they have only eachother for company.

*whistles TAPS*

I am not sure if it is acceptable to say RIP, but it should be more like good riddance.

Here's to eating all the Cherry Garcia!

loves!