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Originally posted by NavyGuy:

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Originally posted by odin:
Nope. I'll be lucky if I get more than 6 people at my funeral service.

I anticipate a lot of the church Choir (they will be singing) and my 2 nephews. Possibly one cousin from California. All my other remaining cousins are or will be too old to travel. Possibly a few former coworkers--we are staying in concact.

As to the OP? Not yet.

flashguy

I live within reasonable driving distance. If I know, I'll make a good effort to attend whatever service is planned. I've done that for several shooting buddies (not SigForum guys) over the years. Not really close to them, but I considered them friends.

That's a very nice gesture. I once drove 3 hours to attend the funeral of a guy who was a fixture on a radar forum. I had the time and gave a short testimonial. I was the only person from the forum who attended.

flashguy

This does come up from time to time. Back in early November, 2009 created a post "Posting from my death bed". My wife finally convinced me to to take a stress test. I was already under enough stress at work, didn't need more. But I went to the hospital early... so I could get to work and dive into the pile of trouble that awaited me. All pretty simple. I'd go, take their lousy test mainly to appease my wife, then get on to work.

Like all the best laid plans, mine failed miserably. I got there, early as is/was my normal procedure. The girl wanted me to get on her treadmill. Their procedure is to start out at a dead run, then increase it till you die. In my overly long life I've learned to just refuse things that don't sound good. Well, I was doing their backup death sentence. Suddenly the cute little nurse like person panicked. She shut everything down and had me lie on the stretcher. OK, that was doable. Then she was screaming into her phone. Suddenly some doctor like dude appeared out of no where, wanting to know what the fuss was all about. The nursey said "he's dying". OK, this is going to be fun, but can I get back up, put my shirt back on, and go to work? The doctor like dude very calmly said "no". So in my offensive way, I calmly asked if someone will tell me why I'm dying and what of. One of the late arriving folks came over and said "you had some kind of an anomoly on the machine". He wasn't happy to here that I felt fine.

Well, the majority opinion was I needed some kind of other test. It didn't go well either. Then finally an adult doctor appeared out of no where. He looked at me for a second, then at the nurse like creature thst from her looks was in worse shape than I was, so he calmed her first.

Then he came over to me. Asked if I had a wife, and if I did, what her phone# was. He called her and told her I wasn't doing well and flunked my test. Before I died, I had my son bring my laptop to the hospital. That was where I made my Sigforum post. Or maybe it was S&Wform who knows. Then I called my boss. Always self serving, he asked what he was supposed to do. I told him to hire my replacement. He said why, and I told him the medical folks either need a new Mercedes, or I really was dying. Surgery was set first thing the next day.

First thing I wasn't going to get to see my grand kids before croaking, then it all got blury. Wife wandered in (she's been a nurse forever) She pointed out I was too mean to die, so its all a hoax. I've long since learned to not trust most medical folks (other than my wife). I wish I'd printed that forum post, it would be fun to read. Or even link to here.

Oldest son occasionally reads the forum, so he'd probably register and post of my passing. After they ran into each other trying to clean my safe of my more valuable guns. Greedy. Now, 12 years later, I'm still muddying the waters. I do have contact with my posting, such as it is.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
Ordinarily, I would agree 'no need to announce your departure'.
But when Jim Allen passed, many of us needed to know what actually happened. He was a fixture here. I am very glad someone in his family made contact.

I had the wonderful pleasure meeting Jim, I was staying in his area for a week had mentioned on the board where I was and he contacted me and then invited me to his house. With that said it brought closure for me and a chance to look up and say goodbye.

PHPhil has it right, I will be taking that extra step and compiling a list for my loved ones of things that should be done after I’m gone. Just to make things easier. When you interact with others albeit from a distance there is that bond even if it is slight that giving notice to you all here is respectful.