Losing Both Parents within One Hour

[4est_4est_Gump]

Wow!

Doug Flutie, aerial author of one of the most memorable plays in college football history, lost both of his parents within less than an hour of one another Wednesday.

“It is with a heavy heart that I am making this statement,” the former Boston College quarterback wrote on Facebook. “This morning my family experienced the tragic loss of my father, Dick and mother, Joan. My Dad had been ill and died of a heart attack in the hospital and my Mom, less than an hour later had a sudden heart attack and passed away. They say you can die of a broken heart and I believe it.”

http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2015/11/18/doug-flutie-loses-both-parents-on-same-day/

 

[pensivepoet]

Yeah, I know a family, the fave son died in a car crash. When the father was told, he died too.
Double funeral

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's always wrong when a parent survives their child.

 

[Ishmael]

Wow!

Doug Flutie, aerial author of one of the most memorable plays in college football history, lost both of his parents within less than an hour of one another Wednesday.

“It is with a heavy heart that I am making this statement,” the former Boston College quarterback wrote on Facebook. “This morning my family experienced the tragic loss of my father, Dick and mother, Joan. My Dad had been ill and died of a heart attack in the hospital and my Mom, less than an hour later had a sudden heart attack and passed away. They say you can die of a broken heart and I believe it.”

http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2015/11/18/doug-flutie-loses-both-parents-on-same-day/

It's a fact that long time partners in life die within 6 months of one another. This is horribly unusual though.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It had to be a hard day, with several to follow...

 

[pensivepoet]

It's always wrong when a parent survives their child.

Yep. My dad died a couple months ago, and my mom died young. So now I can die and not feel guilty about it.
I actually worried that my dad would live long enough to have to bury one of his kids, and I'd be the likely suspect.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have to say that I never really thought about it until long after my parents were dead.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Condolences to Flutie family.

Flutie was great to watch playing CFL. First non-Canadian inducted in to Sports Hall of Fame.

My parents died young of heart attacks. "Luckily" before my younger brother died of his. I got a buddy who lost a teenage son in a house fire. And just lost his other one to suicide a couple of days ago. He's a fucking mess right now.

I always thought losing your mum was worst thing in the world. Being a mum and losing a son must be way worse.

Again condolences to Doug and family. Canada remembers.

 

[pensivepoet]

I met a guy in a bar in ohio.
He was sitting next to me hammering beer and vodka. A real mess. Started talking to him. He said that one night he and his 20 yr old son were drinking in the basement. The dad went to bed, and thought the son did too.
Turns out the son went out to find some buds.
Trooper woke them up to tell them the kid had wrecked.
The wife blamed the dad and couldn't forgive him. And he couldn't forgive himself.
So the family was busted and the guy just drank himself into oblivion daily.
I ran into him there a few times. Always the same. Wanted to help, but shit was just too fucked.
Shit happens

 

[Noor]

Byron's mom died about 6 weeks after he did.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Byron's mom died about 6 weeks after he did.

That is doubly sad.

 

[MonaLittle]

I have buried a child, but I still dread the day I lose my mum and dad. Mums health is failing rapidly and I fear that day is fast approaching. I can't imagine how my Dad would go on without his life partner.

 

[ishtat]

On the other hand I have a friend who lost his father 4 years ago aged 98 a physical wreck and completely incontinent. Then his mother in law also 98 a few months later. Finally his mother died aged 102 just over a year ago. He was the sole carer of all three for almost 15 years.

Frankly he looks a new man now, and has admitted to me a couple of times that in the end there was no grief left, the emotional well had dried up long since. And once he was over the guilt he felt an overwhelming sense of relief.

Ironic that not losing parents can also be a tragedy in its own way.

 

[Aella_]

I have buried a child, but I still dread the day I lose my mum and dad. Mums health is failing rapidly and I fear that day is fast approaching. I can't imagine how my Dad would go on without his life partner.

Sorry about that (your current situation, but particularly your child). I can't imagine a more devastating loss.

Wow!

Doug Flutie, aerial author of one of the most memorable plays in college football history, lost both of his parents within less than an hour of one another Wednesday.
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2015/11/18/doug-flutie-loses-both-parents-on-same-day/

I'm lucky that both my parents are alive. When their time comes, I will be heartbroken, of course, but I think that I will pick up and carry on, because that's the natural order of things.
But if anything -God forbid- would happen to my sister or her family - I'd be devastated.

 

[Finklestein]

It's a fact that long time partners in life die within 6 months of one another. This is horribly unusual though.

Ishmael

Its a fact is it?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

On the other hand I have a friend who lost his father 4 years ago aged 98 a physical wreck and completely incontinent. Then his mother in law also 98 a few months later. Finally his mother died aged 102 just over a year ago. He was the sole carer of all three for almost 15 years.

Frankly he looks a new man now, and has admitted to me a couple of times that in the end there was no grief left, the emotional well had dried up long since. And once he was over the guilt he felt an overwhelming sense of relief.

Ironic that not losing parents can also be a tragedy in its own way.

I get that.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sorry about that (your current situation, but particularly your child). I can't imagine a more devastating loss.



I'm lucky that both my parents are alive. When their time comes, I will be heartbroken, of course, but I think that I will pick up and carry on, because that's the natural order of things.
But if anything -God forbid- would happen to my sister or her family - I'd be devastated.

I get that too.



I left my parents at 17 for the Corps.

They left me long before that. I have no hard feelings. I would have left me too...