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What with my parent taking to the married with children thing late in life I have been to more family funerals than I could poke a stick at. Elderly Uncles and Aunts. 1 set of Grandparents etc etc.
Just to give you some idea of how old, my paternal grandad died 20 years before I was born.
None of them really affected me much did the usual hand on forehead thing at the funeral or whatever and shrugged it off bit sad but got over it.

Then Dec 2007 the big one, my dad had been quite ill for years slowly getting all the stuff old people get pneumonia infections and what have you. He had been developing Alzheimer's over the year as well so to cut a long story short he was in pretty appalling health by the start of the month. Really thin and didn't recognise any of us.
We got a call on the 3rd of December to go to the hospital as he had taken a bad turn, When we got to the hospital and saw him I just knew he hadnt long left. He was breathing really quickly and shallow. His eyes were fixed on the ceiling and he was the palest I have ever seen a live body before. We took turns talking to him and contacted all his remaining brothers and sisters who all arrived around 9 o clock in the evening.
By ten he was barely breathing I had to listen really hard to hear any breath at all. We all sat around around him and I put my hands on him. Without warning his breathing got a bit stronger and his eyes focused on each of in turn and for the first time in months it looked like he knew us all. I heard my brother say "We are all here for you daddy". As soon as he said that my fathers breathing became really shadow and as I sat there with my hands on him he died. So thats the totally non humourous telling of how I saw a Parent turning into a dead body.

Apologies etc
(santoslhalper, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 15:42, Reply)