My Granddad, the portent of the apocalypse?
Unfortunately I never knew him as he passed away when I was a little over six weeks old, but it's bizarre, but anyone who was close to him during his life always seems him when close to deaths door. There have been three examples so far, the first of which was my Grandma, when in hospital the nurse told us that 20 minutes before she passed away she had regained from her frail state and was sat in bed chatting with seemingly no-one. When asked, she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world that she was chatting with her husband.

Secondly, after my Grandma had passed away my brother moved into her old house. The neighbours were a lovely elderly couple who had lived there for a number of years and were great friends with my granddad. They both either had sight of him or held conversations with him in the moments before passing away also. The strangest was the elderly lady who lived there, who was stood looking out the window and said quite cheerily "Oh look, Les is coming round!" Her husband was sat watching TV at the time and saw nothing strange in this as her eyesight was poor and her mental capacity had started to dwindle, that and my brother does hold an uncanny resemblance to him, but on the basis that he was around two-hundred miles away at the time it was not a possibility. Within 20 minutes she had also passed away.

When joking about this with my mum a few years later she told me that he himself was beckoning across the room to his long deceased pet dog Rex shortly before passing away.

It always makes me smile to think that he may be there watching over me, except when I've been wanking.

Then it's just wrong.
( Muns, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 2:23, Reply)