Omnimaga
General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: ZippyDee on May 09, 2011, 07:07:12 pm
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My grandmother died this morning around 9:45. We knew it was coming, as she'd been getting weaker and weaker by the day, and could no longer even swallow food on her own. Two days ago she stopped being able to breathe without assistance. My mom and her brother decided it was time to just stop the assisted oxygen and let her pass. I'm still not sad. Though now I feel bad about not feeling bad about her death...I don't know why I'm posting this here. I guess I just needed to let it out.
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to tell the truth, it's hard to be completely sad about letting someone go who would be better off out of misery. I can get where you're coming from. However, if she was healthy and she died, different story.
It's fine not being sad in this situation. I personally would be a bit glad that she was on her way to a better place.
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Well that's nice to know my mental state is not completely absurd. Thanks.
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Some people tend to take time to react to certain things, especially extreme ones. I am one of them. When my other grandmother died a few years ago, at first it seemed like I wasn't sad, but then a few days latter I started being sad. It's not because the person didn't care, it's because it sometimes takes a while to realize everything that happened. Sometimes it seems that the shock is so big that it does the opposite effect at first.
However, in some cases, if the person is really suffering, just that will make us sad, and when the person dies, we will actually be happy for the person, as she is no longer suffering. It depends of people, really.
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Well, I never really knew my great-grandmother, so when she died, I was more sad for my parents who knew her well than I was for her.
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Yeah that can happen too when you don't see them much, or if they did a lot of bad stuff to you or your parents before.
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I was sad when my Papatino died. I didn't even know him all that well. He was loud and noisy, and he only spoke Italian, and I was always scared of him because I didn't know what he was saying; he was so loud that I always thought he was angry.
I cryed at his funeral.
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Ok so your parents are from italy? Did you come to birth there too? I also wonder if papatino means grandfather or father?
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My dad is from Italy. he immigrated when he was 18 mo. old.
Papatino is not Italian for grandfather. I don't know why he had me call him Papatino.
Sidenote: I call my grampa Grampa
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As A Christian, when someone dies that I know is going to go to heaven (well, that I'm pretty sure will since we can't really know this side of heaven) I'm sad that they left, but I am happier to know they are with Christ now.
Someone in my family died that I cared about, and didn't even go see while she was sick. I was only really sad during the funeral, but before and after, it wasn't incredibly sad for me.