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Post by Marty on Dec 3, 2023 23:54:12 GMT -5
Old bandmates, bassist Steve passed away yesterday and guitarist Kerry is in the hospital and could have complications.
Kerry is in St John's and I'll check on him tomorrow. He grew up in Shoreview, MN
Steve Mosher was in Tucson. He was from Arden Hills, MN.
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Post by howard lee on Dec 4, 2023 7:04:33 GMT -5
Ah, Marty. How I hate to see this type of news. It sucks to have to say good-bye to old friends forever.
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Post by drlj on Dec 4, 2023 10:22:55 GMT -5
I am sorry to read about your friends, Marty.
You are right, though. It is where we are now. Barb & I have lost a number of friends and it doesn’t get any easier.
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Post by Dub on Dec 4, 2023 12:22:16 GMT -5
You have our condolences, Marty. It’s hard to get over the loss of true friends.
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Post by Marty on Dec 4, 2023 12:52:47 GMT -5
It's just that we will be hearing more of people in our lives passing away.
We are at that age.
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Post by kenlarsson on Dec 4, 2023 13:18:32 GMT -5
My old duet partner Dennis, had a saying, "getting old sucks but it beats the alternative". I always used to think of aging primarily in terms of my own physical and mental deterioration leading to eventual death. Now that I'm at that age I am realizing it's the loss of the people in our lives that is more painful and problematic.
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Post by t-bob on Dec 4, 2023 14:01:16 GMT -5
I had death with my great friend - April 2023. She was 49 yr old. Her husband said "she died" "her ashes are in the Ocean"..... She must've had cancer or something
I had another great friend who just had a lot of surgeries and she just walked on her floor and she was dead. A heart attack. 69 yr old
How is the holidays - wintry weather and wintry ageism?
I'm still not complaining - it happens a lot especially the holidays.
I live with almost 70 tenants/people (old old old seniors) - there will be the police & the huge fire truck & ambulance with CPR medics ..... the shroud in gurney (RIP). At least five people have died in the holidays.
Ho Ho Ho
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 4, 2023 15:08:24 GMT -5
We were out this morning working on the Xmas lights, when the fire and ambulance rolled up with lights and sirens for the neighbor four doors down. Don’t know what happened, but a ride to the ER in a ambulance is never good.
Mike
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Post by dradtke on Dec 4, 2023 15:47:25 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that, Marty.
It happens. I took my mother to a lot of funerals for her friends.
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Post by david on Dec 4, 2023 16:02:29 GMT -5
I remember my dad announcing his decision to not go to any more funerals. I did not question him about it but thought it was a callous sort of decision. I am starting to come around to the view that I do not want to continuously visit with the grief of funerals. Maybe that is how he viewed it too.
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Post by RickW on Dec 4, 2023 18:49:35 GMT -5
Hard one for me was an old friend from band days, one of the guitar players from my first band. Lord, we had a lot of fun out on the road. He always had heart problems, but they caught up with him, and an operation went poorly. Had lost touch with him for several years. He lost all kidney function, had a damaged liver, and decided to cease treatment. He was only 64. So far, most of my old friends are still trucking, fortunately.
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Post by TKennedy on Dec 4, 2023 23:20:56 GMT -5
My best friend and wonderful musician Bruce Kelly died about 7-8 years ago in his early 60's. He was one of the more delightful creatures God put on this earth. He had just been to the grocery store and they found him in his car with a cell phone in one hand and a melted ice cream cone in the other. Massive sudden heart attack.
It was tough for all of us and his family but in a way I envied him. He went out quickly and painlessly and at the top of his game. No rotting way in long term human storage facilities as happens so frequently.
I still think "I need to call Bruce" when I hear a good joke or story.
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Post by epaul on Dec 5, 2023 0:20:21 GMT -5
"...
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
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- Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium"
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Post by millring on Dec 5, 2023 6:16:00 GMT -5
I've reached the age of being patronized.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 5, 2023 9:07:55 GMT -5
My best friend and wonderful musician Bruce Kelly died about 7-8 years ago in his early 60's. He was one of the more delightful creatures God put on this earth. He had just been to the grocery store and they found him in his car with a cell phone in one hand and a melted ice cream cone in the other. Massive sudden heart attack. It was tough for all of us and his family but in a way I envied him. He went out quickly and painlessly and at the top of his game. No rotting way in long term human storage facilities as happens so frequently. I still think "I need to call Bruce" when I hear a good joke or story. MY mom is 97 in Assisted Living. It's not a pretty sight. I keep scratching my head thinking the next 20 years (should I get them) are really down hill. |
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