Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I'm in a place that I've never been in before

Sorry for your loss.

My dad passed 8 years ago. I miss him often.

Gosh.....sorry.

I'm next to the last in my lineage. My only sibling (brother 6 years older) died in 2006 at the age of 45. My Dad (only child) died at 80 yo in 2013. The only ones left are me and my mom and she's turning 87 in a week and has been type 1 diabetic for 57 years. Every year I expect is her last, but she's Scottish and I think those people are too stubborn to die. I thank every day I have her, but I know every day could be the last.

I'm comforted when I look at my wife of 21 years and our 17 and 19 YO girls. My folks did well and in turn I've done well. I've been blessed by those in my life and I shouldn't take pity.

As my old, grizzled neighbor said to me as a condolence after the passing of my brother: "Be thankful that you've had someone in your life that you'll miss this much."

Every time I feel sorrow and think of those I miss; I think of what my neighbor said. I've been blessed in my life and so have many of us. Keep the departed's legacy in your heart and in your daily deeds, and they've never truly left you. They've helped build the best part of you that you should share with others.

Take peace my brother.

Exactly. Be thankful for what you were allowed to have for as long as you were allowed to have it because you are never promised you'll be able to keep anything at all. What you have for as long as you have it is a blessing...a gift.

Condolences to you on your loss and prayers for you and your family!

Very sorry for your loss.

My Dad passed a few years back then my Mom 1 1/2 years ago. Left me as the oldest living in the line - so much the same as you.

Basically I have taken a hands off approach with siblings unless asked for advice. I do get asked questions that I do not have answers for and at times I sit and keep my mouth shut when perhaps I should say something. I have taken an approach that people need to live and grow their own lives. Our success was through hard work with sacrifices and not something all our family members are willing to do. So while we are their to help if needed they need to make their own path.

Wish you all the best for the future.

At 65, I still feel like I'm to young to be a orphan. Still miss my parents. Sorry for your loss.