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My grand dad just died...

VanTammenVanTammen
edited December 2008 in Chit chat
he was 86...pneumonia...one of the persons with whom I learned the most in my life...

I even got to play a bit of speccy with him (mostly chess and dailey thompson...




last words he said where (and Im not kidding) - "know I have to go, there are some blond kids, all sparkly calling to go with them" and after that he died...

not only I'm dam sad about this, he managed to give me an existencial crisis, since I'm mostly atheistic and think we die things just end...
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited December 2008
    sorry to hear that dude
    but looks like he had a decent innings at 86.
    good job he didnt go mid daley thompson tho, wouldve put a big dampner on your zx speccy love
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2008
    Bad crack that is :(

    Sorry to hear of your loss, my grandad died when I was 5 or 6 years old, I've lived a lifetime for some since he died but I still miss him.

    No words can make a situation such as this better.

    It's cliched, but just be glad for the time you did have together. Believe me you'll never forget it.
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  • ewgfewgf
    edited December 2008
    I'm so sorry for your loss, mate. All our thoughts are with you, and if you need to talk, we're always here to listen, and add our thoughts.

    And even though I'm not religious, I do think that there's probably something beyond death. I don't believe in organised religion, as every one I've seen makes it's leaders wealthy, when if they truly believed in God, then they'd believe that money is ultimately worthless, and would instead spend their time trying to please God and not make money for themselves.

    I don't necessarily disbelieve in God (the belief in religion and in God are two different things), though I don't necessarily believe in Him, either, I've never seen what I'd consider proof either way. But I do really hope that there is an afterlife, where the good are rewarded in Heaven. There's so much suffering and misery in the world, and it would be truly terrible if the good people of the world were never rewarded, and the sufferers compensated.

    No one can be absolutely sure that God and Heaven don't exist. You might well see your Grandad and everyone else again, in the next life.

    All the best, mate.

    Carl.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited December 2008
    Sorry to hear of your loss, VanTammen. :sad:

    My nan (on my dad's side) passed away Tuesday this week at the age of 92. That's all of my grandparents gone now. I couldn't even afford a ticket to fly out to Spain for her funeral. :sad:
  • krayzkrokkrayzkrok
    edited December 2008
    Hopefully he died in possession of his faculties. My granddad really lost his in the last couple of years, and in some ways it was merciful when he finally went. My grandmother, on the other hand, was still completely with it and she essentially died of a broken heart very shortly afterwards (they had been married for over 60 years). I consoled myself knowing I shared the best years of my life with them both, and that's what got me through it.
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited December 2008
    Damn, that's sad. Sorry to hear it.
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

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  • BethanBethan
    edited December 2008
    Sorry to hear about your loss.
    Grandads are special and mine introduced me to the Speccy way back. Grandad loved Atic Atac and Scrabble and we never worked out what the hell we were supposed to do in Survival.

    How many of us were introduced to our Speccys by our grandads?
  • ghbearmanghbearman
    edited December 2008
    Sorry to hear that, VanTammen. Grandads are indeed special.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited December 2008
    my grandads barely knew what a telly was let alone a speccy
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • JamesWJamesW
    edited December 2008
    I've only got one grandparent left. I haven't seen her in years on account of living in a different continent. She's got Alzheimer's, so I suspect she's not missing anything. I'm back in the UK in April, so I'll hopefully see her then. Let's get back to happy Spectrum land: she worked for Timex in Dundee. Watches first obviously, but she was involved in Spectrum manufacture. She got us a discount on ours, so well done Granny! She also knew how to LOAD "", and 10:PRINT "Granny is great":GO TO 10 - top stuff.
  • zx1zx1
    edited December 2008
    Sorry to hear that mate. Mind you, 86 is a good age.
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited December 2008
    Aww :( Sorry to hear of your loss. Seems like he whent somwhere pleasant.

    I'm not sure what the after life, but there are lots of simiar experiences to your grandad. My wifes grandmother saw her husband and was talking to his for two days before she passed away.

    Maybe our spirits pass though to another dimension that we cannot see.

    I have no grand parents left, my last one (grand mother) dies in the early 90's. She features in my dreams often. In the dreams she's alive again, but very fragile and weak because she's only just come back alive. It's an odd one that allways leaves me very sad even after I have woken up.
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  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited December 2008
    JamesW wrote: »
    Let's get back to happy Spectrum land: she worked for Timex in Dundee. Watches first obviously, but she was involved in Spectrum manufacture.

    I live 2 minutes away from that Timex factory :-D
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

    https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
  • VanTammenVanTammen
    edited December 2008
    thank you for the kind all the kind words guys!

    I know it seems strange since I don't really know any of you guys in person, but it's always nice to know you're all "there" when one of us just needs to talk!

    I guess 86 was a really good run, and he was lucid and "intact" until the end(we where both cracking jokes yesterday just a few hours before he died)...so I guess he did have a nice ending to his life...

    Christmas will defenetly feel strange with out him... but I have tons of nice memories of him, and a buncho os wosser to chat about the most crazzy off-topic subject ever! (and with some eggnog, I'm sure all will eventually be fine!)
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