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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last by egypturnash on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:32PM (#5895748)
Two words.

Fuck you. Fuck your sanctimonious fatalism.

Okay, maybe a few more than two words.

The day I turned twelve, we found my father dead on the kitchen floor. He'd had a cerebral aneurism in the night, before going to bed. No warning signs, he was in fine shape. I sank into a deep, deep depression for about twenty years; I feel like I lost a vast chunk of time to that. I did very little beyond going through the motions of life and not quite being gloomy enough to kill myself.

It may be different if you know the end is coming. I don't know.

But I would much rather have had a father as I tried to make sense of who I'd be during my teen and early adult years than this so-called "gift".

Fuck you, and fuck Buddha's rice.

Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last by ams6110 on Monday June 17, 2013 @07:28PM (#5896639)
I don't know if you got help for your depression, but if you didn't that's a shame. Losing a father at 12 is terrible, but you had a father for 12 years. Some people never know their fathers. Presumably yours was a loving father; some people have horribly abusive fathers.

However your foul-mouthed response to another person's point of view is uncalled for. You'll probably say "F You" to me also, but if that's the case let me say I think you need some help getting over your self-pity and bitterness about the cards life dealt you. We all lose our parents at one point or another. I lost my mom to ALS. We knew the end was coming, and it was a long, slow, agonizing time. A cerebral aneurism, in comparison, could almost seem like a gift. Or at least a preferable way to go.

Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last by egypturnash on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @12:35AM (#5897570)
This is not language I'd normally use here. But virtualwhy's advocacy of such a fatalistic viewpoint, and characterization of a parent's death as a "gift", touched a nerve.

Fuck fatalism, fuck acceptance of the inevitable. I'm an agnostic, I don't think there's anything else beyond this life, and having it ripped away that suddenly and unexpectedly is a raw deal, not a gift. I don't know if it'd be preferable to a long, agonizing death; I haven't experienced one of those in my family. Maybe you do end up being fatalistic if you have to live through one of those. I dunno.

It's been almost thirty years. I'm largely over it.