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Thread: November: in memoriam
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Ariel
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November, known to some as the Month of the Holy Souls, is traditionally a month for remembering those who have died: gone, but not forgotten. If there is anyone you wish to commemorate at this time, please post here.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace.
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Ariel
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# 58
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For my mother, who died in March.
For my other relatives.
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ArachnidinElmet
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For my Aunt S, who died last week.
For a number of husbands of friends, three of whom died within a month of each other.
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Welease Woderwick
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Mum died on Lady Day 1989, dad died in 2006 - both missed more than I can say.
Shyam, a boy from this village-within-a-village, hung himself one afternoon back in 2004 at only 14 years old, following his father and his uncle who had both gone that way before. We all, the whole village, miss him terribly too.
And, like a lot of gay men of my generation, there is a list of friends we lost to AIDS in the '80s and '90s.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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For past Shipmates, especially Erin, Ken, Gambit, Miss Molly
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"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing
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Bishops Finger
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For our late churchwarden, J., who took his own life in April this year.
IJ
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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. (Wilkie Collins)
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Piglet
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For my brother-in-law R., my mum and D's dad.
Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them.
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Uncle Pete
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Remembering Dad (nearly 48 years ago), Mother (29 years ago) Granny (50 years ago) Brothers Paul (1994) and David (deuce2 here. 2008) His eldest granddaughter who killed herself in 2013. She went off life support on January 1st 2014 having been kept alive until her organs were harvested. December is a hard month.
There are many others who have died. At various times I remember them all.
I hope they are all at peace now.
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jedijudy
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My dear friend, J, who was Daughter-Unit's beloved mom-in-law. I miss her and have wanted to phone her so many times. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Rowen
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Remembering my mother and father....
And my nephew Peter, who decided life was just too hard...
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"May I live this day… compassionate of heart" (John O’Donoghue)...
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Walter 2016
Florence 2011
Robert John 1995
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Sioni Sais
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My brother Ken, died March 22nd. Remembered every day.
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North East Quine
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It is 17 years ago today that our unborn son David died. I felt him kick for the last time at 1.30am, went to see the midwife to say that I was feeling no movement in the morning, scan to confirm he'd died in the afternoon, then into hospital to have labour induced in the evening. My midwife had helped me draw up a "stillbirth birth plan" a month earlier, and she had told me that painful stillbirths are psychologically healthier, and I should aim to give birth without pain relief. She was right. It came as a blessed relief when the physical pain ramped up enough to blot everything else from my mind. (I caved after 11 hours and had gas and air for the final bit).
He was born on his due date, 5 Nov.
I'm glad he died where he was warm and loved, and that I was spared having to give birth to a life-limited baby and then watch him die. But it feels pretty crap that that is one of the "things in my life that I'm glad about."
Tomorrow - cemetery, family day out, cuddles, ice-cream, things that it feels good to be glad about!
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Stercus Tauri
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Thay haif said. Quhat say thay, Lat thame say (George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal)
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Nenya
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The younger of my two elder brothers who died at the end of November 2011.
My mum who died in September 2012.
My other brother who died in June 2015.
My father who died in July 1989 and who, I'm sad to say, I seldom think of.
NEQ's David.
May they rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Bishops Finger
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for NEQ and David.
also for the two early miscarriages suffered by the second (and now ex-) Mrs. Bishop's Finger. 2 little people, never seen in this world, but maybe I'll see them - as they should have been - in the next.
IJ
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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. (Wilkie Collins)
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gizzie
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Remembering our son Antony, who passed away suddenly two years ago today. RIP.
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Teekeey Misha
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So many loved ones down the years - I'll spare you the list, but they are known to me and to God.
Especially this year, I remember Richy, with whom I was at school many moons ago, when his nickname was "Smiler" because he was - always smiling, even when times were tough. He was killed in a flying accident and it was too long since we last spoke.
May the souls of all whom we love and for whom we pray, rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Misha
Don't assume I don't care; sometimes I just can't be bothered to put you right.
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Abigail
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As I always do at this time of year, I'm thinking of the 31 people who died in the King's Cross Underground fire of 18th November 1987. I remember it vividly. I always changed trains there on my way home from work and on that day I passed the foot of the escalator where the fire broke out less than two hours before it happened.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/18/newsid_2519000/2519675.stm
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11 June 1978. 27 boys and 4 teachers set out on a 3 week canoe trip on Lake Timiskaming on the Quebec - Ontario border to James Bay with St. John's School of Ontario. By the end of the day 12 boys and one leader were drowned.
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ThunderBunk
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My beloved grandmother died on 14 November; her funeral was on 21 November.
This was 21 years ago, and I miss her deeply, sharply, to this day.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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It's the 45th anniversary of the Feith Buidhe Disaster, in which 5 teenagers and one adult on a school expedition died in the Cairngorms.
[ 20. November 2016, 13:55: Message edited by: North East Quine ]
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Sandemaniac
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Mum's cousin died lost in a highland blizzard, the same day his father dropped dead. How much could one wife and mother take?
Wore my poppy today for the Battle of Cambrai, at which my grandfather fought. His medal says "The great war for civilisation". We don't seem to be doing very well on that front, and as for the war to end wars...
AG
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Celtic Knotweed
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Remembering various ancestors who went down to the sea, especially a great-grandfather whose vessel went down near the Pentland Skerries in May 1943. The rest of the crew got off, he didn't. Also a great-uncle in the Royal Engineers who died 'salving German ammunition' in December 1918. "They shall not grow old..."
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