Exist a word like that in 2 countries!?

Europe is awesome!

In Simpson is traslade as "Ha-ha!"

Thanks guys, I appreciate the sentiments. It's been a rough couple days. I found him Thursday night after I got home from work. I've been staying with my sister cause it's been hard to be in my house.

zyxba, I cannot even begin to imagine what that was like for you.

Hang in there...

I am halfway through S5 of Deep Space 9. The Dominion War has just started. I feel the idea of a DS9 Mafia game coming on.... Will probably start sign-ups soon, folks. It's too quiet around here these days.


HERE IS THE DS9 SIGN-UP THREAD, FOLKS!!!!

TOTALLY IN!!

My sister and I found the worst part to be calling funeral homes trying to make arrangements. Shopping around to find someone to handle my father's remains just feels inhuman.

There's still a Hallowe'en Mafia Game calling out like the wind in the night.

I "ostracized" myself from a few people I had known for years over this when my son died. The representative I went to was someone I knew from high school. We picked out a nice coffin together ( aided by my parents). Couple days before the funeral, one of the mortuary owners calls to say there had been a mistake and it was not a coffin but a box that acted like an urn. It was the weekend and the guy I knew had left to go on vacation. Funeral home basically wanted to toss my kid in a file cabinet type box. When I asked why they couldn't just have a carpenter rearrange the one I picked so the lid removed the director got huffy and mouthed off about the weekend.

I did one of my rare unleashings. They found a carpenter. The people involved keep a wide berth from me. I'm not sure if I care.

(I was already feeling sickened by the whole process when less than twenty minutes after my boy passed, I was being handed stacks of paper to properly process his death tax and other government requirements. God forbid time to grieve.)

An hour after my mother died I almost got into a fistfight with a priest.
Having to make arrangements when all you want is to be left alone with your grief is the worst.

And a Lego game... I should probably do some retooling of that one, but I have started writing some roles at least.
Went to see the Lego Movie yesterday, and it did serve as an inspiration. Very good movie for both kids and parents.

When my wife was taking care of her father's belongings, she noticed that the cable company kept sending him bills even though he had canceled his subscription before he died. So she called them up to inform them that he was dead and therefore not interested in cable TV.
Their response? "Oh. Would someone else in the family like to take over the subscription?"
Yeah, that's the first stage of grief - deciding who gets to take the cable subscription...

I'm so sorry to hear that, take all the time you need and of course you have my condolences.

Apparently yesterday was World Pangolin Day, and we missed it. I hope everyone else celebrated accordingly.
*makes note in next year's calendar*

Oh man... Thoughts and prayers for you and your family.