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My dad's last were "I'm determined to **** in a toilet, not in a diaper and die in my own bed!" He had been diagnosed 28 days prior with advanced lung cancer and went downhill pretty quickly. The Hospital let us take him home on Christmas eve and he immediately sent my brother to the store for beer and fruit cocktail (?) He then went into the bathroom and said that on his way out. He then crawled into his own bed and went to sleep. Never drank the beer or the fruit cocktail and never spoke again. He died about 6 hrs later, on Christmas morning in his own bed.
If you knew my dad you would actually laugh at it as we all did.
I'm not sure what my words will be but I have told my daughter that she will play "I've had the time of my life" from Dirty Dancing. I'm good with that!
My dad's last were "I'm determined to **** in a toilet, not in a diaper and die in my own bed!" He had been diagnosed 28 days prior with advanced lung cancer and went downhill pretty quickly. The Hospital let us take him home on Christmas eve and he immediately sent my brother to the store for beer and fruit cocktail (?) He then went into the bathroom and said that on his way out. He then crawled into his own bed and went to sleep. Never drank the beer or the fruit cocktail and never spoke again. He died about 6 hrs later, on Christmas morning in his own bed.
If you knew my dad you would actually laugh at it as we all did.
I'm not sure what my words will be but I have told my daughter that she will play "I've had the time of my life" from Dirty Dancing. I'm good with that!
Thanks for sharing. Your Dad sounds like such a character! Those are the PERFECT last words and I'm so glad that he was able to do just that!
Thanks for sharing. Your Dad sounds like such a character! Those are the PERFECT last words and I'm so glad that he was able to do just that!
He totally was. My brothers and I celebrate every Christmas with a beer and some fruit cocktail. He died at 56 in 1990. I'm now 60, so I've been without him longer than I knew him. Which is mind-boggling at times.
I used to hang out way too much in an Irish pub owned by my then-husband's best friend. Every time "My Way" came on the jukebox, the regulars would get up and sing with great gusto, as if they were men who lived interesting, unusual, and unique lives instead of a bunch of alcoholics sitting on the same stools day after day, indistinguishable from one another except for their names, faces, and other minor details. I guess they each had internal delusions of who they were.
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That's awfully harsh. Maybe those "alcoholics" had family issues you weren't aware of and possibly had tragedies in their lives and were just trying to have a happy moment. Perhaps you need to think more positively about people..
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