# My dad is gone.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 6, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751 "2015-10-06T21:43:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@RickG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickG)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/21 "2015-10-08T19:31:38Z")
May his memory be a blessing to you, your family, and all who knew him.
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### Author:  [@moldmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moldmonkey)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/22 "2015-10-08T19:47:17Z")
My condolences.
> [@](#):
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> It will happen that some stray event will trigger a memory of your dad and you will laugh, or at least smile, instead feel that sharp tear in your heart. Not soon, but eventually.
This. It will get easier.
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### Author:  [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/23 "2015-10-08T20:51:35Z")
I’m sorry for your loss, **Beowulff**. Your dad sounds like someone I would have liked to have known. Peace.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/24 "2015-10-08T20:54:43Z")
Sympathies and condolences.
Now it’s time to take care of the living… while holding yourself upright, too. I wish you all the strength and dignity an anonymous voice on the internet can give you while you do that.
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/25 "2015-10-09T22:11:59Z")
So sorry to hear of your father’s passing. My thoughts are with you.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/26 "2015-10-10T00:45:54Z")
Thanks, everyone.
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### Author:  [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/27 "2015-10-10T05:56:05Z")
What everyone has already said much better than I could have. And hugs, too.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/28 "2015-10-10T06:12:17Z")
Aww, shit **beowulff.** May his passing bring up happy memories, because at the end of the day (sorry for the cliche) that’s all we have to leave.
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/29 "2015-10-10T06:17:17Z")
I’m very sorry for your loss.
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### Author:  [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/30 "2015-10-10T10:42:31Z")
My condolences, **beowulff**. You dad sounded like a very good man.
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### Author:  [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/31 "2015-10-10T15:50:29Z")
So very sorry to hear of this.
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### Author:  [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/32 "2015-10-10T16:15:14Z")
> [@beowulff](#):
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> Some of you may recall a thread I started a few years ago, when I [discovered](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=665225) that my dad was not my biological father.
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> Well, he passed away last Saturday, after a mercifully short hospital stay. The funeral was a week ago. I’ve been spending the intervening time getting my mother moved into a retirement community, with my sister’s invaluable help.
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> Dad was a computer pioneer (simulations), a lover of theater, a fan of ethnic food (the spicier, the better), and a real goofball who loved Tom Lehrer, Alan Sherman, Monty Python and Laugh-In.
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> I’ll miss his razor-sharp perspective on everything from software to world affairs. He always supported me, even if we didn’t always see eye-to-eye.
I’m so sorry for your loss. From what you’ve posted here, he sounds like someone who would have been a lot of fun to hang out with.
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### Author:  [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dad-is-gone/733751/33 "2015-10-10T23:57:06Z")
I am sorry to hear this. Prayers for you & yours. _HUGS_
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