Letters from the Grave

[Smiles]

My questions are these:

Does anyone else here write letters to their loved ones/friends/family in case of their sudden demise? Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I'd hate to think that I would die without ever telling them all the things I just don't say in person, such as "I love you", or "the password to my computer is ****".

If you did, what sort of things would you tell them, would you be brutally honest or sickeningly kind? I would tell my friends how I hated them at first and how they bullied me into being their friend, but in the end it was worth it.

also, would you want to recieve a letter from someone you know who has passed on?

hmmm, maybe thats a little morbid...

 

[Robert0288]

I don't think that way as I'm still young and I will live for ever.

On a more serious note, If there is reason to, such as in oprable cancer, sickness, your getting up in years, going overseas to fight a war or something. I might seriously consider it. The one major problem is that you would have to keep updating the letters.

For example if you just got into a huge fight with your friend, you wrote one of those letters, resolved your issues and then you die 5 years later without updating your letters. Your friend,lover,spouse will get these seething letter filled with hate and have to live with that for ever. Though this does have some potential for playing massive jokes on people after you've passed on.

Also I would never give out my comp password. No need for family to see what I have on there

edit: spelling

 

[cheatking]

i have a question, how would they get them in the event of your death? There some kind of post office deal that they don't advertise??

 

[Smiles]

I hide my letters in my bookcase, where my family is likely to find them.

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

I hide my letters in my bookcase, where my family is likely to find them.

Given that I'm not planning on dying any time soon, this is a topic that hits really far-from-home for me.

But if I were to do so, I'd enclose the letters with my will, as well as a portion of my estate to go into the cost of sending these letters, wherever they may be going, with the excess written to go toward the cost of funeral, casket, burial, services, etc.

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I would tell my friends how I hated them at first and how they bullied me into being their friend, but in the end it was worth it.

also, would you want to receive a letter from someone you know who has passed on?

As far as this question goes, yes, I would like to write letters to my friends. I wouldn't include any intentionally harmful text, because the loss of anyone loved, friend or otherwise, is hard enough. It is my firm belief that some lies are best left buried. While I have none of those to date, I honestly feel that if I did, no one deserves the kind of hurt after their friends/family dies.

Second question: Yes. I would love nothing better than to receive a letter from my mother now that she has passed away, perhaps with all of the things she's told me, or started to explain in part, that I'll now never know.

Also, apologies if it seems like I'm making light in poor taste, but did anyone else imagine an overly-burly, thick armed bully slamming a smaller child against a school locker. Then, bearing down on them with a gaze that could ignite any flammable, asking in a menacing manner, "Will you be my friend?" With another jerk of the arm, the child bounces against the locker, very painfully sounding. The bully, glaring harder, "Please?"

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I feel really guilty for killing this thread. I'm really sorry.