yep I think I got this one covered.
I saw 3 dead bodies in about 6 months of each other.
2006 was a hellish year we lost my nan in january my dad in april my mom in september (the day after her birthday) and my grandad 2 days later.
Dad's was the very first body I saw and it was a very sudden death. He was grey just like grey bloke! He also had to have a post mortem, so that we didn't see the scars his shirt coller was pulled right under his chin. Me and my sibblings stood round crying and after a while my big bro grabbed my hand a put it on to dads (later I was to find out that he wanted to touch him but was scared and made me do it first) All the while I was cring I kept thinking why had they filled him with so much embalming fluid! It gave him a round look! So my final look at my dad had him in shirt and tie with big round belly and my last thought was how much like the fat controller from thomas the tank engine he looked!
My mom clung on for 4 days while we were all around her hospital bed she was very peaceful in dying until the nurse on duty lifted her arm which was broken and she sat up in pain and shock and had to be sedated. I don't think I've ever wanted to punch anyone as much as that nurse. When she died her eyes went rather sunken and I was promptly sick. The week after we trotted off to scotland to see Granded who in all fairness looked ok. I think all the deaths gave me a sense of surrealism and I couldn't resist saying at the funeral how Grandad had very much won the beauty padgent of the corpse parade. Hmmmph not really a funny story and that's the longest answer I'll ever give to a question.

if you've got this far down thanks for sticking it out.

Length-Didn't like to look.
Can we have a more cheerful qotw i feel like I'm off to slit my wrists! ;-P
( Mrswoodbine finally has her own account., Thu 28 Feb 2008, 11:46, 2 replies)

I'm with you on nurses thing.
Those people who mistreated my grandfather in his final hours at "Good Hope" hospital will get what's coming to them. As will the nurse you mention who was so deserving of a bloody good clout.
(Jamie and his magic bat You can bump n' grind, it is good for your mind, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 16:24, closed)

Dad died recently,
and due to some cockup, he was in a "care" home for a few weeks, before the hospice. I was in his room after he'd eaten and he asked if he could use the loo; the bitch of an assistant asked if he could wait, as they were serving dinner, and it would screw up their rota or whatever. Dying of prostrate cancer, and that BITCH says that. I really felt like dropping her on the spot.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 29 Feb 2008, 9:47, closed)