Re: Monday Night Dinner? 6/02/2025

In article <mabveuF44leU3@mid.individual.net>,
leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net says...

 
On 2025-06-04, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
 

We were lucky with my FiL. For some reason my BiL's ex wife used to keep
tabs on him.  When he failed to answer his phone she went over to check
on him and got the super to let her into the apartment.  FiL had died
peacefully in his sleep.

 
 
If only we didn't stink after we die. Either the neighbors smell you or
the buzzards find you. There ought'a be a law, so we can RIP!

  Depends on the time of year.
 
  Many winters ago , MIL  (120 miles away) phoned us to
say  "get over to the grandparents PDQ, somethings wrong. 
Their neighbour rang to say they haven't been seen lately
and don't answer the door or the phone.
 
 Grandfather was 90, completely blind, sharp as a tack and
completely ran the show, managing Gran who had dementia.

We went over straight away, about 40 miles. 

  After some persuasion Gran remembered who John was and
let us in. She said her husband was in bed fast asleep.
He'd had flu, lost his appetite and wasn't eating, so she
was just letting him rest.

   Upstairs, we found Grandad in bed, blankets to his
chin, very dead. Not looking good, but no smell, bedroom
freezing. On the floor beside the bed, were congealed 
plates of untouched dinners.

He'd been dead a week. She didnt realise what had happened
so every night she had continued sleeping in the same bed
with his corpse,and making their meals.


     Janet