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My sister had my dad believing he was going to be returning home, he asked me about it. I told him he was only leaving hospice with a toe tag (morgue identifier where he had worked).

He said "That's good news." He had gangrene in his left leg, was 94, and other medical issues.

1 posted on 09/09/2025 9:49:28 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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Death is so wonderful.

Everyone should do it.

2 posted on 09/09/2025 9:52:02 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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My friend was a huge Bengals fan. When the priest gave him his last rites, his last words were “Who Dey”.Everyone, even the priest laughed


5 posted on 09/09/2025 9:54:44 AM PDT by bleach (Donaldus Magnus 2024-2028 A.D.)
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“Agent Smart, what were his last words?”

“Get your knee off my chest!”


6 posted on 09/09/2025 9:56:39 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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“Hold my beer and watch this!”


8 posted on 09/09/2025 9:58:44 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus
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The good don’t fear death. The evil clutch to life as long as possible because they know where they’re going in the afterlife.


10 posted on 09/09/2025 10:01:18 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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it is a moment of deep psychological transformation for many.

And for others, its just another day?

12 posted on 09/09/2025 10:06:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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if i quit smoking, i won’t know what i died from


21 posted on 09/09/2025 10:12:13 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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“I just found some information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.”


22 posted on 09/09/2025 10:12:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The Hindus say:

“I’ll be right back”


23 posted on 09/09/2025 10:13:15 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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A Dream Within a Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?


25 posted on 09/09/2025 10:15:32 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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.....rosebud.....


27 posted on 09/09/2025 10:17:16 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12


28 posted on 09/09/2025 10:17:51 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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Probably the most important thing to communicate to them as they pass is “Thank You”.


31 posted on 09/09/2025 10:22:56 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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Life's a piece of sh$t,
When you look at it.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke it's true.
You'll see it's all a show.
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

32 posted on 09/09/2025 10:23:49 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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“I don’t mind dying...I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” -Yogi Berra


33 posted on 09/09/2025 10:24:20 AM PDT by Arkady
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My father mentored me on dying. He had been a US Army combat veteran who was involved with two amphibious landings on two Japanese held island in the Pacific during WW2. He had faced death before, so he had a different perspective. He had relished and enjoyed life after surviving WW2. He had no regrets.

One of the things he said shortly before his death, was that “It is time for me to experience this next step.”

In my last visit with him before his death, I told him about all the wonderful things we had done in my childhood, some of the great things he had done with my children (his grandchildren) and how proud I was of his accomplishments.

The elderly man (who my dad knew) who shared the nursing home room told my mom, when she collected Dad’s final possessions told her that dad had been so happy and peaceful when he passed just after I left that final day.

Posting this story is valuable, as it will hopefully help some who read it to mentor their children and spouses on both living a good life and dying a good death.


42 posted on 09/09/2025 10:39:02 AM PDT by Robert357
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George Carlin - The Two Minute Warning

Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbC36W_lqo


45 posted on 09/09/2025 10:44:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Back in 1998, my Dad suffered a fall that caused significant brain bleed. His last words to me as he took my hand and pulled me closer to him were, “I can still break your damned arm!”

Certainly not the Abrahamic blessing I would have liked. I’ll have a talk with him in a few years when I get there.


47 posted on 09/09/2025 10:47:06 AM PDT by oldeguy (you can take my firearms when you find the creek I lost them in.)
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Since we’re on the topic, I think some of you may find this article thought provoking as written by a great mind, Gordon Duff.

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/07/10/proof-of-eternal-life-and-the-war-against-satans-ai-army/


48 posted on 09/09/2025 10:57:43 AM PDT by iontheball
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Satanist Anton LaVey’s last words: “Oh my, oh my, what have I done! There’s something very wrong, there’s something very wrong, there’s something very wrong!”


52 posted on 09/09/2025 11:15:13 AM PDT by dznutz
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