These sorts of threads don’t always meet with universal acclaim, but I commend the effort to support the community in this way.
That being said, my family is currently mourning the loss of my father two weeks ago, at the age of 64. Your parents are always going to be larger than life to you, and it’s as if suddenly the moon were missing from the sky. He was frightened to have to go in for the open heart surgery, but I’m glad it went well and he was in a state of recovery when the fatal stroke occurred, so his last waking moments were not of fear.
We weren’t as close as we could have been, and now I regret not making more of an effort to be. I feel really bad for him that this happened, when we were all ready to help him recover and I sort hoped it’d be a good way to muster a closer relationship.
If you wouldn’t mind, prayers for my family are welcome. It’s too late to pray for the man himself, so I am left regretful.