RIP Thread

I'm posting this here because it sucks and everyone is really depressed right now.

Very abbreviated story: Boything's family and I are all legitimately concerned that we're going to discover a murder-suicide in the next few months, and it's not as paranoid as it sounds.

Explanation: Boything's grandpa is very old and extremely sick battling cancer. His immune system is obliterated from the treatments, and a toothache has turned into a jawbone infection. This week he's decided to make all his final preparations because he says he's tired and he hurts and he's done fighting. Grandpa's biggest concern right now is grandma, who is also very sick and in pain and is also suffering from rapidly advancing dementia. Her quality of life is very low now and it's destroying grandpa that he's going to leave her and she won't even understand what's happened.

Last night, Boything and I talked about it and it turns out we both have the same awful morbid thought. There's a very real possibility that, once all the paperwork is signed and everything is in order, someone is going to go check on grandma and grandpa and discover that grandpa has decided to end his life and spare his wife further pain by taking her with him. It would be literally the last thing he has real control over in his life and it's something he would do. Apparently other people also think this is likely. No one is bringing it up, because how would you?

In the meantime we're all just sitting here waiting for the inevitable. The family has already buried one grandparent less than six months ago. This sucks.
 
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We just lost another comic artist, Richard Thompson. In a world where the comic strip industry has a bunch of comics that should've been buried a long time ago, a few lolcow creators who suck and a chunk of the strips being average, Thompson was one of the good ones. I'm just hoping Tom Batiuk doesn't outlive Steve Pastis.
 
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Axiom said:
I'm posting this here because it sucks and everyone is really depressed right now.

Very abbreviated story: Boything's family and I are all legitimately concerned that we're going to discover a murder-suicide in the next few months, and it's not as paranoid as it sounds.

Explanation: Boything's grandpa is very old and extremely sick battling cancer. His immune system is obliterated from the treatments, and a toothache has turned into a jawbone infection. This week he's decided to make all his final preparations because he says he's tired and he hurts and he's done fighting. Grandpa's biggest concern right now is grandma, who is also very sick and in pain and is also suffering from rapidly advancing dementia. Her quality of life is very low now and it's destroying grandpa that he's going to leave her and she won't even understand what's happened.

Last night, Boything and I talked about it and it turns out we both have the same awful morbid thought. There's a very real possibility that, once all the paperwork is signed and everything is in order, someone is going to go check on grandma and grandpa and discover that grandpa has decided to end his life and spare his wife further pain by taking her with him. It would be literally the last thing he has real control over in his life and it's something he would do. Apparently other people also think this is likely. No one is bringing it up, because how would you?

In the meantime we're all just sitting here waiting for the inevitable. The family has already buried one grandparent less than six months ago. This sucks.
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Any updates on this?
 
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We just lost another comic artist, Richard Thompson. In a world where the comic strip industry has a bunch of comics that should've been buried a long time ago, a few lolcow creators who suck and a chunk of the strips being average, Thompson was one of the good ones. I'm just hoping Tom Batiuk doesn't outlive Steve Pastis.
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Just started reading Cul De Sac and it really is awesome. So that sucks

Pastis I'm conflicted on.
 
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Darwin Watterson said:
Any updates on this?
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At the advice of hospice workers, they removed all the guns from his house so he couldn't hurt himself.

He died this afternoon. We were honestly surprised he lasted this long.

Arrangements have been made for Grandma but, as we feared, she doesn't completely understand what's going on. Before the undertaker turned up, she was talking to the body about house repairs. How do you explain to someone their spouse is dead? And she's going to need to be told over and over again, because she'll forget.
 
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Axiom said:
At the advice of hospice workers, they removed all the guns from his house so he couldn't hurt himself.

He died this afternoon. We were honestly surprised he lasted this long.

Arrangements have been made for Grandma but, as we feared, she doesn't completely understand what's going on. Before the undertaker turned up, she was talking to the body about house repairs. How do you explain to someone their spouse is dead? And she's going to need to be told over and over again, because she'll forget.
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I'm sorry to hear that. I don't really have any solid advice for you since I've never been in that situation, my family likes to drink themselves to death before dementia gets them. My condolences, but unfortunately I don't thinks there's an easy or perfect way to deal with that type of situation.
 
RIP Splash, I love you.

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