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Debts put into perspective

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  • 3Dogs
    3Dogs Posts: 14,092 Forumite
    So sad to hear your news - his time must have come and at least he did not suffer at the end - thinking of you

    Remember, death divides us from our loved ones
    but memories will always keep us together
    :( Mr 3Dogs 3-7-12 :( 3Dogs'Mam 31-3-13 :(
  • Woowoo
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    So sorry to hear your sad news HH. If you need people to talk to keep logging on we are all hear to listen xxx
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  • MatyMoo
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    So sorry HH :(

    It was so quick and you must be in shock. It was hard enough to find out he was so poorly and you really haven't had enough time to get your head around that before having to cope with this too.

    Try not to dwell on the last week but look back at the happy times.

    Thinking of you
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  • nanna58
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    :AhI HAPPY

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  • I'm so sorry Happy. :( Wishing you strength and courage for the days and weeks ahead.
  • emiliah
    emiliah Posts: 169 Forumite
    Just wanted to say how sorry I was to hear your sad news

    Em
  • bugbabe1970
    bugbabe1970 Posts: 437 Forumite
    So sorry about your dad. I lost my father 4 months ago. Look after yourself and each other and you will get through it.

    My deepest sympathy x
  • beanielou
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    Sorry to hear your news.
    Take care of eachother.
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  • Butti
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    HH, I'm really sorry to hear your news. I'd like to send you a little verse that someone sent me on a card when my mum died. I'm not religious but thought it was lovely. It's by Canon Scott Holland.

    Death is nothing at all....

    I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you...
    Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
    Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow on it. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
    I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

    My thoughts are with you.

    Beth
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  • moremoneythansense
    moremoneythansense Posts: 107 Forumite
    edited 26 April 2010 at 8:27PM
    Dear Happy Haddock,

    You won't have heard of me but I just wanted to say I'm sorry you have had some bad news recently and I really do hope things are not too painful for you.

    Whilst you say it puts debts into perspective, I do totally agree, but also it makes you realise that life's too short - we are only here once and it is not a dress rehearsal and where is the fun in wondering how we can find next months payment, dreading opening most envelopes that come through the letterbox, dreading answering the phone incase it is the telephone pursuit unit.

    We do need to sort our debts out and then enjoy our lives to the end to which our money will allow.

    But for now, take some time out and don't be too concerned about anything else.

    Take Care and I'll have a word upstairs for you. He'll look after him. x

    This too will pass.............
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