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Originally Posted by hanco
Never knew my real father, saw him twice. My step fathers were “ You graduated high School. Get the Fuuck out of my house! “


My friend Greg had a step father like that. Greg graduated from high school on June 1, and when he got home after the ceremonies, step father gave him the graduation present, a 3 piece set of matching luggage, and said "Get the Fuuck out of my house!"

Greg never spoke to him again.

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My friends Dad passed away about 5 years ago. He was like a second dad to me. Taught me almost everything I knew about working on cars and equipment. His Mom said he was sitting on the edge of a hospital bed getting ready to leave after some cancer testing. He looked at her said "I'm Sorry" and face planted dead on the floor. Had an aneurysm.

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"I want to go home" (said full of anger as a demand and not a request) the last time I saw him at the hospital. He had liver cancer and was bleeding out faster than they could put blood back in him. He went home and got out his old A-5 Browning, then changed his mind. (I later found it sitting by his chair) He got in his truck, ran it up to 80mph and hit a low concrete bridge barrier killing himself. In the last few months of his life when a normal man in his condition would draw those he loved close to him-he managed to alienate everyone who gave a damn about him until all were glad he was gone. However, he actions did have one unintended kindness. The auto insurance company paid death benefits sufficient to bury him and a very generous property settlement on the truck. This kept my brother and I from having to try to clean and sell the filthy POS that smelled like the bottom of a pool hall butt can. My father never cleaned a car after he bought one, smoked with the windows rolled up and flipped ashes in the floorboard. I doubt we could have given the truck away.

My stepfather, a man I loved very dearly, who battled pancreatic cancer with courage and dignity said "I love you and take care of your mother". I know where his soul resides. I am not certain about my father's.

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What? Not one "Hold my beer and watch this"?


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I am conflicted typing this. I live 1000 miles away. Dad was 90 yrs old.
Last conversation was on the subject of helping my no good half brother.
Some time later dad wasn't at half sister's wedding, neither was half brother.
Half brother assaulted dad night before wedding, brain bleed from blunt force trauma, and lost ability to talk.
Died in hospital about 10 days later.

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Haven’t heard em yet, thankfully


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Originally Posted by Bristoe
Dismal topic,...


When you don't talk about the friends and family that have passed, they die twice.

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My dad's last words were "I love you to". Heard those words 4/09/2020, He died 4/10/2020


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"I'm going home "
Me and my father were good friends and had a ball together.

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I imagine they were OH FU-K!!!!! somewhere on a Siberian ice pile, Feb. 1986.


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Originally Posted by shaman
You know, it's funny, but I really don't remember. It certainly wasn't anything profound or touching.

Dad went into the VA for a routine exam and never made it back out. They tried to implant a pacemaker, but it did not go well. He came out of the anesthetic and went completely nuts-- completely bat$hit crazy. He was howling at the moon, talking to the man in the ceiling, and muttering things about the cat in the wall. He was constantly trying to rip out his IV lines and rip at his incision, so they had to tie him in the bed.

Over a week, that gradually went away. He started to appear more normal. He made time with the nurses. He joked with me and Mom. However, they could not get his fluid levels right. He eventually suffered a complete breakdown and died.

I remember one of the last things I said to him where he was up and relatively normal was " When we get out of this, we're all going to have such a laugh!" The rest was just mundane small talk. He was able to see his boyhood neighborhood from the window of his room.

Shortly after that, he became unresponsive overnight. He never regained consciousness. I took Mom home on Sunday afternoon, and we stopped by a local rehab facility to check it out. If he made it out of the hospital we were looking at months of slow rehab. Afterward we went back to the house. The family gathered for dinner. We were all watching the Packers and Vikings when the call came.


Sad to here that the VA hospital killed your Dad too.
I wonder how many Dad's go to that damned cancer of an institution for a routine examine and come out dead or the drugs and their treatments kill them?

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Originally Posted by simonkenton7
Originally Posted by hanco
Never knew my real father, saw him twice. My step fathers were “ You graduated high School. Get the Fuuck out of my house! “


My friend Greg had a step father like that. Greg graduated from high school on June 1, and when he got home after the ceremonies, step father gave him the graduation present, a 3 piece set of matching luggage, and said "Get the Fuuck out of my house!"

Greg never spoke to him again.



Never saw the SOB again either. I’m sorry to say I felt elated when I heard he passed.

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Not his last but what I remember: "The angle of the dangle plus the heat of the meat equals the mass of the ass"


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He looked at my mom and said "we had a pretty good life, didn't we?" and stopped breathing a few moments later.


What a wonderful gift to leave your mom with, being grateful for a life well lived and leaving this world with happiness and gratitude.

I’m not even 50 yet but I would certainly feel the way your dad felt, being glad to have shared my life with my best friend.


He knew he was dying and had been taking stock of his life, and I think that was the final tally. My conclusion would be similar.


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Can't remember the last words he said to me as he couldn't talk or recognize anybody the last 2-3 years he was alive.

Alzheimer's is a BITCH!! Died too young at 72yo!

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No idea what his last words were. I hadn't seen him for at least the last 3 years of his life. Obviously we didn't get along.

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I went to the hospital to visit dad the morning before he passed during the night. Brought him a ham biscuit from Bojangles. He sat up in bed and ate every crumb. He told me he loved me before I left. He knew he didn't have long. We got the call from the hospital right at midnight.

Mom spent the last year of her life in a nursing home. We were told a week earlier that her days were short. I got a call about 6AM on New Years day 2018, mom was asking for me. I called my brother and we got there before 7. She woke up just long enough to say, "Son, I'm going" She went back to sleep and took her last breath about 3 PM.


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