[OT] A giant passes.

After a long illness and a recent crisis, my father-in-law passed this
Sunday morning as he had wished; quietly asleep in his favorite chair
with little bother or fuss.

D.
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In article ,
(Derek Lyons) wrote:

After a long illness and a recent crisis, my father-in-law passed this
Sunday morning as he had wished; quietly asleep in his favorite chair
with little bother or fuss.

D.

I'm sorry for your loss, Derek, and that of your family.

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Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
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oscillations tear apart bridges."
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Derek Lyons wrote:
After a long illness and a recent crisis, my father-in-law passed this
Sunday morning as he had wished; quietly asleep in his favorite chair
with little bother or fuss.

Sorry to hear that. But that is really nice way to go, had I the power
to choose, I'd pick the same way.

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T

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Derek Lyons wrote:
After a long illness and a recent crisis, my father-in-law passed this
Sunday morning as he had wished; quietly asleep in his favorite chair
with little bother or fuss.

Sorry to hear that. But that is really nice way to go, had I the power
to choose, I'd pick the same way.

Ayup. All in all, one of the better ways to go.

My condolances Derek.



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T

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:39:19 GMT, (Derek Lyons)
wrote:

After a long illness and a recent crisis, my father-in-law passed this
Sunday morning as he had wished; quietly asleep in his favorite chair
with little bother or fuss.

....D, you have my condolences. If there's really any good way to pass
on, there's really three acceptable options:

1) Dying in the service of your country and making sure if the enemy
isn't beaten by your actions, at least their victory is pyhrric as
possible.

2) Dying with a gorgeous redhead with big hooters bouncing on top of
you so that you have the unique experience of going and coming at the
same time.

3) Passing on as your FIL did, in peace.

....I do have one bit of advice, tho: I've had a lot of friends go
through deaths in the family during this particular holiday season and
find that the season tends to enhance the trauma. One in particular
tries to drink herself to death every Christmas Eve, and it's always a
fun event when nobody's around to kick her in the butt and babysit
her. My advice is this: treat this for what it is, and don't let the
fact that it happened two weeks before Christmas make it any worse.
Your FIL wouldn't have wanted that, even if you *did* marry his baby
girl. Mourn, yes. Overwhelm, no.

Again, my condolences and prayers, pal.

OM

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OM wrote:

2) Dying with a gorgeous redhead with big hooters bouncing on top of
you so that you have the unique experience of going and coming at the
same time.


We are finally in _complete_ agreement on something. :-)

Pat
Ann-Margret fan club member # 30,632,878

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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OM wrote:

2) Dying with a gorgeous redhead with big hooters bouncing on top of
you so that you have the unique experience of going and coming at the
same time.


We are finally in _complete_ agreement on something. :-)

They're always coming and going
And going and coming
And always too soon

-- Lili von Shtüpp

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:17:54 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

OM wrote:

2) Dying with a gorgeous redhead with big hooters bouncing on top of
you so that you have the unique experience of going and coming at the
same time.

We are finally in _complete_ agreement on something. :-)

Ann-Margret fan club member # 30,632,878

....Not totally, alas. While Ann still holds a major place in the small
portion of my heart that I've allowed for "fanboy wet dreams", her
boobs weren't as big as I was talking about.

Still wouldn't spit'em out of my mouth under any circumstances, tho...

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

OM wrote:

...Not totally, alas. While Ann still holds a major place in the small
portion of my heart that I've allowed for "fanboy wet dreams", her
boobs weren't as big as I was talking about.


Blaze Starr...no, Tempest Storm...no, Virginia Bell...no, all six at
once! :-)

Pat

My deepest condolences to you and your family, Derek.
What did he do for a living (or as a hobby, interest, whatever)?

Dale