# My aunt passed away

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-passed-away/615190>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 8, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-passed-away/615190 "2012-03-08T20:09:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-passed-away/615190/1 "2012-03-08T20:09:54Z")

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Even worse, I had planned to visit her in hospice. Two relatives have died when I blew see them b4 they died. She had a condition that wlked like ALS quacked like it, but appearantly wasn’t.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-passed-away/615190/2 "2012-03-08T20:32:21Z")

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I’m sorry. My last great aunt died a couple of years ago, and it was such a sad thing.

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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-passed-away/615190/3 "2012-03-08T21:15:38Z")

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One of my aunts died this week too. We’re going to her funeral tomorrow.

She was a great lady - she’s the one I talked about on the board who gave up smoking by eating apricots whenever she craved a smoke, then gave up apricots because you get sick of them \*real \*quick.

She was in her 80’s, was having strokes often & heart issues even more often.

I had hoped to see her last year during my parent’s golden wedding, but she wasn’t well enough to come up and I wish I’d gone down country to see her.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-passed-away/615190/4 "2012-03-08T21:18:10Z")

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My condolences. I don’t quite understand the second sentence in your original post, though. “Blew”?

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**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-aunt-passed-away/615190/5 "2012-03-08T23:35:58Z")

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**hugs** So sorry ☹