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Not because I didn't care about him. I loved him. He was the biggest shit stirrer at every get together and it was always hilarious.

It's just that he was gone a while ago. I watched a corpse of what used to be him slowly decay for 2 years. Dementia sucks.

Not because I didn't care about him. I loved him. He was the biggest shit stirrer at every get together and it was always hilarious. It's just that he was gone a while ago. I watched a corpse of what used to be him slowly decay for 2 years. Dementia sucks.

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[–] 6 pts

You had time to accept his demise. Also, if someone is not 'relevant' in your life, your day to day or week to week life, you will not miss them much.

If we want to be missed, we have to make ourselves relevant. I have to force it and make it happen, with my kids and grandkids.

Relevant: closely connected or appropriate to what is being done or considered

[–] 5 pts

I can relate

When I learned my dad killed himself, first I was sort of stunned, and then nothing in particular

You would have asked me the day before how I would feel if that happened, I would probably have answered "I don't even want to think about it"

It's not a problem that you feel nothing. However, feeling guilty over feeling nothing can lead to complications...

Years had passed since the last time we saw each others, so as bopper said here https://poal.co/s/TellPoal/590656/e1a4c9cf-26c2-43a9-9f6c-81c0af664f49#cmnts "if someone is not 'relevant' in your life, your day to day or week to week life, you will not miss them much."

It doesn't sound right... And at the same time it's likely very true...

[–] 6 pts

I agree with you and bopper's comment. He just became someone I didn't know. A shell of a person. I hate to put it this way, but he died to me a couple of years ago. When I couldn't call him a fag or something and immediately get roasted by him.

Anyway. I missed him a long time ago. At this point, I'm kind of glad he could finally rest.

[–] 0 pt

Got dayum someone turn the fucking lights on.

[–] 4 pts

Sorry about your loss friend.

[–] 2 pts

My mother's has dementia for the past 10 years. it's been a slow trickle with her. Then over the summer she sat up in bed and started sobbing saying she was dying of what her mother died of and then proceeded to sleep for 3 weeks straight. my father literally had to pick her up out of bed and coerce her to come down and eat food. she would piss and shit herself, fall asleep mouth open at the dining room table. Finally my father had her committed to the hospital and they couldn't find anything wrong with her. Then back at home, a health aide taking care of her got attacked by her with a knife. After that my mom was committed to a psych ward for 3 weeks and juiced to the tits with bipolar medication. she's not bipolar but there's something in the salts that destroyed her personality and she now walks around with a smile on her face and an empty brain even more so than before. She's now in a nursing home in Florida, my dad's down there to for the winter. My mom literally shits herself every day, covered in blood from kicking things and falling into stuff. I came home last June and spent a month with my family and when my Mom and Dad dropped me off at the airport I kissed her goodbye and to me that was the last time I would ever see her again. My father wants me to go to Florida to see her but I don't want to. My mother is dead. What's in Florida is not my mother that's a walking corpse kept alive by insurance plans. So long story short I feel what you're saying about feeling nothing. You're not wrong, we only have so much to give when it comes to grieving.

[–] 2 pts

Death isn't real. None of this is. You'll see him again.

[–] 3 pts

This! He is in the astral plane, the consciousness field, and will be there to welcome you when you pass over. This meat space thing is kind of weird and I believe we are meant to learn while here and to advance as a species, but death is just the next level.

[–] 0 pt

I believe we are meant to learn while here and to advance as a species

Ding DIng DIng we have a winner!

[–] 2 pts

That's better than my case. I heard about my uncle dying after the fact and didn't care because he was a piece of shit drunk and tried to molest my sister.

Count your blessings, OP.

That said my grandma went the way your uncle did and it sucks. Sorry for your loss buddy.

[–] 2 pts

I hate to hear that. My uncle was the type that would have made your uncle disappear. Sorry you had to go through that.

[–] 2 pts

Has he come back yet? If not, soon you will dream about him, and he will be standing at the foot of your bed watching you, or you will be doing something and he will be in the house with you. Happens to almost everybody. After you dream about him once, you don't dream about him anymore.

[–] 3 pts

I imagine something like that will happen. My dad and I used to sit on the porch and shoot the shit for hours. My last conversation with him was in a dream with us sitting on the porch a few weeks after he died.

That's when all of the impulses to call him or visit him stopped.

[–] 0 pt

Some bitch what great story. Write a book about it.

[–] 1 pt

I dream of those that pass. Everytime. Intensely if I'm sober.

Only dreaming of them once, not so much. With some of them, the ones not so close to me, yes, only once.

But those attached to me, many times, for weeks, months. Not just wake up and soon forget type of dreams either. Like lucid, standing right there with them having conversations that I can recall word for word, right now. It is quite sad actually.

[–] 0 pt

That's weird, I've had dreams where two of the close family members I've lost came back in dreams. Like they were dead and buried and then came back to life and everything was mostly normal. And I can't remember having more than one dream for each of them. Almost like there's a need to process the loss at whatever level of consciousness it is that manifests in dreams. Weird.

[–] 1 pt

As men, it seems like we process things on a long term basis sometimes. It's not immediately felt. It takes time to really soak in.

[–] 1 pt

You prepare yourself ahead of time with your reason. You did the rational, caring thing. People with dimensia don’t need us to be all stressed out and sad. Good job. He’d want you to be happy.

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