I feel for you friend. My wife and I have lost a few grandparents in the last few years and even the parents are getting up there in age these days. Truly sorry to hear about your loss.

I feel very sorry for you my friend.
:-(

Thank you, FirstApple.

Thanks, hellalt.

Sorry for your loss. I also have only my maternal grandmother left.

Draug, I went through losing my last remaining grandparent in February. I recall it was a time when I, for the first time, was in a game that you were also in, a PE/Draug/tylerdurden world invitational. I asked for a pause, and you pled my case, but I ended up getting a sitter (IKE) anyway. The generosity and support of this community was actually far above what I could imagine from people whose only commonality was playing a board game.

All the best. Good luck.

Sorry for your loss. My father is now my oldest living relative and he´s now older than his father was when he passed away. I feel the weight of my years too. That said, Dad´s 80 this year, has two new hips, all his marbles and still plays golf 3 times a week...

Thank you all for the sympathy/condolences. I agree with SD that this community, despite our squabbling and bickering, does come together and provide it's members friendship and support.

Both my grandfathers died when I was in middleschool. Perhaps it would help if you considered how long they were with you, rather than thinking about how they are now gone.

Oh, I do and am thankful for that. And I'm thankful my grandma didn't suffer long. She was feeling bad yesterday and they took her to the hospital late last night when she had a heart attack. They took her off life support this morning and she passed within minutes.

I am sorry for your loss Draugnar. I too have one grandparent left and my mother passed many years ago, so I know how you feel.

Feel for you, Draugnar. My paternal uncle and grandmother died before I ever really knew them and my grandfather passed a few years ago. Fortunately, everyone on my mom's side is still alive, but they are certainly getting up there. I can't say anything that will actually help, but I'm sorry. Best of wishes to you and your family.

Just end it now, noone (alive) loves you, misery is your only constant companion.

lol

but seriosly, I don't want to be a dick but I haven't seen a troll post on this thread yet, so I decided to set up camp.

Shedding tears over dead wont bring them back so just move on. (easier said then done)

"and I guess I'm starting to feel the weight of maturity on my shoulders..." Stunningly revealing statement....and so true. You are about to enter an era of your life that many of the invincible on this site can't comprehend: Maturity, responsibility, the importance of being an elder, etc.

I have no grandparents, and recently I attended the funeral of a close cousin, who's last grandparent had just died. He said to me, "You know....the next one <funeral> is gonna be a bitch....because the next one is going to be close..."

I'm married with 2 kids, one a teenager, the other a teenager next year. And yet, I still look to my father for advice, and I respect him (again...a notion that a lot of the younger members of this site don't quite grasp....the idea that your elders DO know more than you!!). My cousin was lamenting the idea that I am now the third oldest of the close cousins....that his parents were the eldest....that the next funeral we attended together was going to be somebody horribly close to me on an emotional level.

That is a cold, hard smack in the face. And yet, it is simply reality. It is the same thing that everyone must go through. But it is a chance to step up, to become a family leader, to take the role of a family elder and actually influence a younger generation.

Funerals suck. Death sucks....and yet, as a Christian, i don't mind them nearly as much as the lost, because I have faith that i will see a lost one again. You may mock that comfort as absurd....but you can't take that comfort away from me. That is the beauty of faith!

Anyway....tough times. I feel for you, bro....and yet....don't view it as bad....just view it as change, as opportunity. Reflect strongly upon this moment and don't let it pass without becoming a better man to all around you.

Sorry for your loss. I also have only my maternal grandmother left.

QFT

I also second abge - you are lucky to have had your grandparents so long in your life - one grandfather died when I was a toddler, the other in middle school, my paternal grandmother in high school.

It's too bad, because I am only now reaching the age where I truly appreciate the elderly - what I wouldn't give to see my grandparents again.

Good luck with this Draugnar we feel for you.

Fasces is clearly a self-absorbed asshole who has never truly experienced emotional pain....or is such a dick and has experienced so much emotional pain, that he has developed this cold, assholish defense mechanism of mocking pain in order to hide his own pain.


I'm voting for the second option. I pity you, Fasces....

I also second you krellin - it is both interesting, sad, and inspiring to watch my parents and their siblings step up to the role of family elders and leaders in the absence of their parents. We will all be asked to do that one day, I suppose.

Wow @ Fascist.

Sorry Draug, I've lost a parent recently, and it always sucks.

Sorry for your loss, Draugnar.

Sorry Draugnar.

This is a pretty good community after all... Almost feel like unmuting a few people.

Maturity creeps up on us in all sorts of ways, but it most often shows its face by making us feel like the world is weighing down on us. I guess it's partly because, as we grow older, we lose the people who were helping us carry the burden of our lives, or at least making it a touch lighter with their love.
One thing I've realized, is that the heavier the world feels, the more I know I take some of its weight of my own children's shoulders.

I believe you too, Draug, have kids.

That heavy fog that is set on your shoulders will not touch them. And that's because you're there.

Sorry, Draug. I don't know what I'll do when I lose my grandparents. My dad's dad died when I was two, so I don't remember him. I only have my mom's parents left. I can't imagine what it must feel like.....

Now, I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings...oh wait YES I DO!

Seriously, the fact that you would post this kind of thing on THIS site proves that you're just an idiot. You're going on my inferior list.
But, I'm sorry for your loss.

Arg!
What is wrong with the world???
Draugnar has been here a while, from what I can understand. You and I are fucking newbies, Atom fuckhead. While it's true that neither of us would have sufficient reasons to come and share such news with this community, some people here have been in touch long enough to warrant it.

If anyone is inferior here, KA, it's you... cause you suck at being human.

Sorry for your loss, of your dignity

Oh: and if Draug is on the list, I want to be on it too please.

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU PEOPLE?

I am evolved.

And yet, you twit, you've not given us one reason to believe so.

The Scholastics also believed in simply asserting things as truths, so long as it would fit with their other asserted truths.
Since Bacon and Descartes, we prefer to ground our truth claims in observable facts.