Losing People

Felonious Crud

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Sorry to hear it.

My point was more that it's the wrong ones. For example, the right bellends, some examples to be found in Buenos Aires right now, seem to carry on regardless.
 

D Walker

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Yep, get it all the time on my military Facebook pages, the dangerous thing is, they are all mostly around my age, scary.
 

zagatoes30

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There are points in life where this happens, previously though it has been parents and friends of parents but recently it is people I grew up with, as above my age or thereabouts.
 

Scaf

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I traveled to Edinburgh yesterday to pay my respects to a former colleague and friend, only retired at the end of August aged 61years - top bloke as well - RIP Phil
 

mjheathcote

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I traveled to Edinburgh yesterday to pay my respects to a former colleague and friend, only retired at the end of August aged 61years - top bloke as well - RIP Phil

Unfortunately, too many friends, colleagues and family of mine have only just made it past 60.
One of my oldest friends from school is a funeral director. Right bundle of laughs at times when he starts reeling off those that have passed through his establishment that week that have been taken away from us too early.
 

zagatoes30

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I will be going up to Warrington this week for such an event, best mates Dad, he only buried his mother 11 months ago.
 

jasst

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Two people I know are not expected to make Christmas this year, and to cap it off, brother of a friend jumped off bridge in front of a train the other day.
 

Wack61

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It's the train drivers I pity in that situation , I feel **** if I run a bird over , what it must be like to watch a human die when there's nothing you can do doesn't bear thinking about.

Enjoy your life while you can, too many people scrimp and save for a retirement they never reach, my old boss was lovely man , company car , house paid off decades ago , only ever went on holiday in the UK , must've been banking 70% of his salary, lived for rugby league , he was desperate to watch Wigan in Australia but couldn't bring himself to write the cheque , retired at 68 because he was forced to , didn't make it much past 70
 

Sam McGoo

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Loosing anyone is horrible.

Sadly I think the frequency is only gonna get worse, as I think Life expectancy will fall quite sharply from now on.
It hit me a few years ago when I realised that my wife and I had lost as many aunties and uncles in their 60s as we had grandparents in their 80s at that point. A couple of our grandparents out lived half of their children!

Although medication and treatment has come a long way in those generations, I think human lifestyle and diet has probably changed too much, too quickly for one generation to evolve and cope with.
The post-war generations have gone from natural farm food and freshly cooked meat and 2 veg type meals with sugary foods and alcohol being an occasional treat, to anything and everything often in excess. Couple that with processed food, insecticides/chemicals, Microwaves and plastic food packaging, fast-food and takeaways it surely can't aid us living longer and longer. I know there's much more to it than that, but you get the idea.

Enjoy life while your young!
 

happydaze

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A fair while back, when my Dad was in his late 80s, we were having a 'chat'. When I asked how he was feeling, he replied:-
"Pretty good, except... I'm running out of mates". This is now happening to me!
 

Lozzer

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Happened again today, I was told the news as I walked into work this morning, a colleague I've worked with and nurtured/guided for the last 18mnths, 39yo with 2 kids, sadly took his own life at the weekend. What is wrong with people. :( #gutted #nowords
 

rockits

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It is very sad for the person who decides it seems the only way to end their current plight. Sad for the related families and friends. Also very sad that society is creating this situation as a more common occurrence.

I think we have moved forward as a race so much in so many ways but also backwards in so many other ways.

It is very selfish of someone to do this to their families and friends though. Troubles should and could be shared but the realtionships need to be there to make sure it is obvious and available. This is often the issue and something we need to get over as a society.