# dropmom died last night **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834 "2017-03-10T04:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/1 "2017-03-10T04:09:51Z")
In her sleep, aged 93. A good run, except the past few years with an inoperable broken hip. I was expecting it for as long with every call from a Seattle area code. She kept her spirits up (thank you, Jesus, for opiates), and I’m announcing, not looking for sympathy, but wanted to share this: Sunday a priest dropped by for last rights. After he left she turned to my SIL and said, “He’s kinda cute!” Yeah, that’s me all over, and explains a lot. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fruitbat2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fruitbat2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fruitbat2)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/2 "2017-03-10T04:14:42Z")
Sorry for your loss, dropzone. Great that you can have a sense of humor through it all. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/3 "2017-03-10T04:21:28Z")
It’s never easy saying goodbye. Even when someone lives into their nineties. We still wish for more time. Sorry for your loss. Your mom sounds like quite a character. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/4 "2017-03-10T04:29:04Z")
RIP **dropmom** ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/5 "2017-03-10T04:35:07Z")
I’m sorry for your loss. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/6 "2017-03-10T04:36:19Z")
I’m so sorry for your loss. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/7 "2017-03-10T04:37:14Z")
My condolences for your loss. I can see where you get your wit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/8 "2017-03-10T05:07:34Z")
So sorry for your loss. You make it clear that she will be missed. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/9 "2017-03-10T05:30:04Z")
Oh no I am sorry, Dropzone ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/10 "2017-03-10T05:58:09Z")
**dropzone** , my condolences. I admire your philosophical acceptance of what we all face sooner or later. You are a living tribute to the her memory. I am sure she always was aware of that and was proud. Hugs to you. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/11 "2017-03-10T06:09:00Z")
Actually, we played games with it and didn’t tell my brothers. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/12 "2017-03-10T06:26:52Z")
FTR, she was the “respectable” one and would chide (encouragingly) my father and brothers for taking it too far at the dinner table, where I learned, as Number 3 Son (federal judge, endlessly smart but crazy bro, territorial attorney general, telemarketer, eventual senior partner younger bro), I was fucked if I couldn’t keep up. A hard lesson to learn in the third grade, but a lesson to learn, and accept. With ritalin, but they hadn’t invented ADD. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/13 "2017-03-10T07:52:54Z")
Aww, I’m sorry, **dropzone**. She sounds like she was a character. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/14 "2017-03-10T08:12:50Z")
Sorry for your loss, dropzone. Thanks for sharing your memories - hope to read some more, because a personality that big with 93 years of history behind it must have left an endless list of great stories 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/15 "2017-03-10T08:27:56Z")
Vale\*\* dropmum.\*\* You managed to bring a (vaguely) decent fella into this world, so kudos. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/16 "2017-03-10T11:17:33Z")
You have my sympathies. RIP **dropmom**. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/17 "2017-03-10T12:18:29Z")
I’m so very sorry for your loss… ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/18 "2017-03-10T13:27:46Z")
I’m sorry to hear this, and I’m happy she wasn’t in any pain. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/19 "2017-03-10T13:37:52Z")
That’s the thing: she was in pain. Lots of it, if she paid it any mind. But she didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834/20 "2017-03-10T14:03:35Z")
My sympathies and prayers are with you. Eternal rest grant to her, Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dropmom-died-last-night/781834.md?page=2)