The Moment of Silence thread

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The point of this thread - perhaps a bit macabre - is to let anyone leave a small message for someone they've lost in their lives, and they feel the need to give them a small section of time to their memory.

You can do this for anyone - family, friends, celebrities*, pets, etc - but please keep it a little on track and try not to be disrespectful.

(*Originally I wanted to make this thread and have it inducted with Mitch Hedberg last year, but I missed the date, so I waited until this year, where I subsequently forgot again. So I figured I can bite the bullet with another person.)

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Just giving a moment of silence to my aunt, who died last Thursday. She had undergone heart surgery the previous week, was discharged in good health last Thursday, and then died from complications (blood clot) that night. She is survived by her son and husband.

I am making the thread now because her funeral is currently being conducted in Austin, TX. I could not make the trip.

May she rest in peace.
 
[quote name='Kayden']".........."[/QUOTE]

Fixed. This is the "moment of silence" thread, not the "Memorable Golgo 13 Quotes" thread.

A moment of silence for Boris Yeltsin. I used to prank call Burger King's consumer service line claiming to be him, and that is something I could never thank him enough for.

May he RIP...a fat, juicy one.
 
a moment of silence for my gf's orange tabby "Rusty" who passed away back in early March. Cause was apparently liver failure. However we suspect it was from eating that contaminated catfood.
 
Very coincidental that I just saw this thread. Five minutes ago, I received a phone call from my mother informing me that my grandfather has just passed away. He died of lung cancer at the age of 90.

May he rest in peace.

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[quote name='ITDEFX']a moment of silence for my gf's orange tabby "Rusty" who passed away back in early March. Cause was apparently liver failure. However we suspect it was from eating that contaminated catfood.[/QUOTE]
I hear that's what the cat food caused. Very sad to hear the cat was one of the victims of that. People need to be held accountable for this.
 
RIP Jeremy Johnson. A friend of mine who passed away a three weeks ago, died at work at 30 from a heart attack. He leaves behind his wife and two beautiful daughters, 2 years and 4 months.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']I hear that's what the cat food caused. Very sad to hear the cat was one of the victims of that. People need to be held accountable for this.[/QUOTE]

yes various reports of people thinking some clowns who think its amusing to put rat poisoning into the food supply. Someone like this needs his head examined as I don't think it's funny to want to hurt poor animals like this.
 
A moment of silence for a classmate that passed away this past weekend. We had our graduation ceremony tonight and she will be missed.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']a moment of silence for my gf's orange tabby "Rusty" who passed away back in early March[/QUOTE]

Around 5 hours ago my cat just died and it really sucks. An hour prior I played with him before I ran out to pick up some groceries and as soon as I get home, my neighbor tells me that she saw my cat dead on the sidewalk. He was buried soon after and I still can't believe it as I have no idea why he passed since it couldn't have been the pet food fiasco because the food I feed him wasn't on the recalled lists.

He was a stray we picked up about 2 years ago and became ours. I am still looking out the door every few minutes as I think, and foolishly hope, that this is just a bad dream.
 
[quote name='NineH']Around 5 hours ago my cat just died and it really sucks. An hour prior I played with him before I ran out to pick up some groceries and as soon as I get home, my neighbor tells me that she saw my cat dead on the sidewalk. He was buried soon after and I still can't believe it as I have no idea why he passed since it couldn't have been the pet food fiasco because the food I feed him wasn't on the recalled lists.

He was a stray we picked up about 2 years ago and became ours. I am still looking out the door every few minutes as I think, and foolishly hope, that this is just a bad dream.[/quote]


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both my grandparents died in the past 2-3 weeks. Sadly, I'm not too emotional about it since we barely got to see each other though I wish it was the other way around....

so yeah. a moment of silence for them.
 
[quote name='daria19']sorry to hear about your losses.

I noticed this posted on msnbc.com this morning. Apparently there may be even more pet food recalled, but the FDA has not released details. Hopefully there will still be something safe left to feed our pets after this.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18279643/[/QUOTE]
Is it wrong to feel a little better that my cat died in November, prior to all this bullshit, just so she wouldn't have to experience such a painful death?

She didn't eat much pet food anyway, we spoiled her with human food and would only eat pet food as a last resort. She lived to 13 anyway.
 
Bump.

A guy I knew from high school died last Friday, after a five year long battle with cancer.

They thought it was in remission, but then it resurfaced.

He was at a wedding for another classmate of ours a few months ago, and just looked so pale and weak.

We weren't really friends, but part of me got really jolted by this because it's someone my age dying from a terminal disease, which is a scary proposition and difficult to fully comprehend and integrate. It also dawned on me last Sunday how odd it is to have a dead person's cell phone number in my phone.

The whole thing has been a little unsettling and upsetting. I'm still working out how to come to terms and feel completely okay about this entire thing. It's weird to feel sad about it, because we weren't close at all. In fact the guy was kind of a jerk in high school. But I guess part of me just doesn't like to see other people suffer, including him and those close to him.

I think that inability to determine what exactly sort of friendship we had makes this whole situation a little complex, because I don't know what to feel about it.

So to SLG, rest in peace.
 
-Moment also-

I'm pretty sure my dog is either dying, or dead. My father took him to the vet early this morning. They proffered that he could have bone cancer, but considering the fact that he's a 15-year-old laborador, it could be anything.

Cheers to the best doggie in the world:



:whistle2:(
 
for brendan snead... 2 months old. his father called me last night to inform me. my friend (the father) is in the army, and still getting shipped out on sunday.
 
[quote name='cdubb1605']for brendan snead... 2 months old. his father called me last night to inform me. my friend (the father) is in the army, and still getting shipped out on sunday.[/QUOTE]

So wait, someone you know, who happens to be in the armed service, had a 2 month old child recently die and is still getting shipped out to Iraq on Sunday?
 
[quote name='daphatty']So wait, someone you know, who happens to be in the armed service, had a 2 month old child recently die and is still getting shipped out to Iraq on Sunday?[/quote]

my friend stephen is in the army. his 2 month old son brenden passed away on sunday night (sep 30). thankfully stephen was at home on leave during this. he isnt getting shipped to iraq but for more training before his tour of duty over seas. sorry about any confusion
 
Moment of silence goes to my dad, who died from cancer a few years ago. Three years ago, this december, actually. Wow, what a pre-birthday present that was for me.
 
Bump for my grandfather, who died a little over two hours ago. I'm about to drive over to grandparents' house. Funeral is on Monday.

He was a military man and served in World War II (although to my knowledge, not under battle circumstances). My grandmother is still alive, and I think they were beyond 60 years of marriage by now (I remember their 50th anniversary party quite a while ago, most likely the early to middle 90s). Moved all over the world during his military career, including Japan and Germany (my dad still remembers living in those places).

He and my grandmother lived in a tiny town in north central Texas. Its population is seriously maybe two thousand people or so. There's a giant hill on the north end where they live (on High Road, no less) that overlooks the rest of the town, which is really nice to see at night because all the streetlights twinkle like terrestrial stars.

They have a pool, and I've spent many summer days there swimming. As a kid, periodically my sister and I would stay with them for a few days, where we tended to go to the zoo annually. Sometimes we went to a nearby military base - my grandparents liked to shop at the supermarket on that base (I imagine you get discounts as military).

At any rate, he's been suffering for the last several years, and has slowly been worn down. This will sound stupid, but I distinctly remember getting Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, and the first weekend I played it, they came to visit. This was basically right before my grandfather began his health decline, and I remember we were all really concerned about him driving down to see us. He developed Alzheimer's shortly after, and since then, had become wheelchair ridden and required in-house help from a nurse everyday.

It's always been tradition that we go to their house for Thanksgiving and they come to see us at Christmas. But the last few years, they haven't been able to drive to see us (for obvious reasons). Thanksgiving this year - as has been the case for a few instances now - was fairly....detatched, as my grandfather couldn't socialize or talk to anyone. He didn't recognize anybody (except maybe his wife and potentially my parents) and simply was trapped in an almost vegetative state.

It's weird all the little memories you remember. He was mostly a good man, but a little harsh/strict, which I think was mostly tied to his military mind. A local schoolgirl many years ago interviewed him for some sort of a project, and he even dressed for the occasion in full uniform. I did a similar project in eleventh grade where I asked him about his life experiences - I still have it around here somewhere.

He liked sports, grilling, and used to life weights while underwater in his pool. I remember there was a commercial once with a woman sitting on a beach in a bikini, and he remarked that "she'd get sand in her crotch."

So yes. A moment of silence for the colonel.
 
-Moment-
Alzheimer's is rough to deal with, especially when you're really close to your relative who is suffering through it.
 
Bump.

One of my very close friends just called me some 45 minutes ago and told me his grandfather passed away. Known this guy since about first grade - lived in the same neighborhood, went to all the same schools, basically a "brother I never had" sort of situation. It's particularly difficult because his biological father was not around to raise him - he was raised by his grandparents, so it's like losing two-in-one for him.

His grandfather had struggled with various health issues over the last...most likely ten years. For a godo while he couldn't walk without assistance, and recently he had developed a small amount of dementia that had resulted in hallucinations and things. There was a big scare probably two years ago when he was talking to relatives that had already passed on - many doctors see this as a connection to the afterlife. My own grandfather (from my mom's side, not the one mentioned a few posts back, as this one died in 2001) did the same thing right before he died - kept talking about my grandmother and all his siblings he missed, who kept appearing and talking to him.

Anyway my friend's grandfather had fluid in his lungs (or around his lungs - I'm not sure which...perhaps both) and was rushed into the hospital yesterday. He passed away this evening around an hour ago.

Funeral services will most likely be on Saturday or Sunday. My friend is really broken up.

This is a moment of silence for Art.
 
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