# When was the last time you cried? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570 "2024-11-01T22:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/21 "2024-11-02T03:36:26Z")
Often since I watched a friend die unexpectedly a few weeks ago. Only two hours earlier we had a wonderful conversation and I met his daughter for the first time. Later he collapsed and couldn’t be saved. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/22 "2024-11-02T04:53:36Z")
Today. I was preparing to vote, and when I saw the category “President of the United States,” I unexpectedly burst into tears. I’ve been very worried about this election, but I didn’t realize _how_ worried until I saw the names on the ballot. **China\_Guy** and others carrying the burden of grief, I’m so sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/23 "2024-11-02T09:27:40Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > I’ve cried at the passing of several beloved pets. When a pet has been part of your life for the better part of two decades, how can you not mourn their passing? Tears =/= mourning and mourning =/= equal tears. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/24 "2024-11-02T11:08:17Z")
Can’t remember. At most, at times I almost feel like I MIGHT cry - when my mom died (27 yrs ago) or putting down some dogs (20 yrs\>). Birth of a kid/grandkid… Maybe a tear might seep out. But full blown crying? Wonder if I ever have, since a kid at least. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/25 "2024-11-02T13:58:17Z")
I never used to cry. Then, after my wife died I found myself getting weepy over the slightest things. I’m not talking about the time I was at work listening to music and a song came up about a husband talking to his wife, and then at the last verse you find out that he’s at her grave, and I suddenly found myself crying so hard that I had to go home. I’m talking about watching TV and something sad happens to one of the characters and I find myself tearing up. (When this happens while I’m with one of my friends she looks at me and says “Are you leaking again?”) And I should mention that I just got weepy telling that story. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/26 "2024-11-02T14:47:36Z")
This past February, my old basset hound had to be euthanized (cancer), only a month after the unexpected death of my collie, who passed the day after I returned home from a vacation. I sat in the vet’s office with her feeding her treats, and sobbed as they led her away. I couldn’t be present for it, emotionally, though I was offered. And, yes, I’m now tearing up with the memory. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/27 "2024-11-02T14:51:15Z")
~~Yesterday~~ Today. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/28 "2024-11-02T21:42:46Z")
Last time was when my sister died a month ago. I don’t normally cry, I’m full of Prozac. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/29 "2024-11-02T21:50:21Z")
Last time _i remember_ would be 05/18/2005. A couple of months after my brother died, i went to a John Martyn gig in Cambridge corn exchange, and it hit me. Fortunately it was dark, so i think i got away with it ! ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/30 "2024-11-02T21:51:24Z")
When my dog died. Sometime early 2021. Fuck cancer. And now remembering it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/31 "2024-11-02T21:58:14Z")
All-out sobbing? I don’t think ever. I shed some tears over our cat who died a couple of months ago. At my age, I get weepy over car commercials, so there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/32 "2024-11-02T22:45:57Z")
I cry all the time in response to music, literature, movies. Real-life events? Rarely. I was pretty broken up when my longtime girlfriend died suddenly years ago. I cried for months after, in private. I recently met relatives on my father’s side of the family in the old country, none of whom I’d ever met. One lady in her 80s is the widow of a first cousin of mine who I apparently bear a strong resemblance to. She would wordlessly (she speaks no English) clasp my hands and smile beatifically into my eyes for minutes at a time, and shed a tear. I can’t imagine _not_ responding in kind to that. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/33 "2024-11-02T22:52:59Z")
A few months back when I had my dog put to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/34 "2024-11-02T22:58:02Z")
Last time was Céline Dion singing at the Olympics. I’m not necessarily a big fan, and the tune was old and tacky, but she’s “one of us” in various ways, she’s been a part of our lives in Québec for 40 years and has gone through a lot of bad stuff this past decade. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/35 "2024-11-02T23:04:26Z")
Grief crying, I also do plenty of that. Two people I knew died in the past two months, I cried for them when I heard. I cried hard when I had to have my pony euthanized; it is harder to watch than a dog or cat because when the pentobarbital hits them they _fall_. Right next to the grave the tractor is waiting to push them into. God, the fall, I will never forget it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/36 "2024-11-02T23:55:05Z")
Related for me – My dog passed away at home a month and a half ago-ish, and I’ve teared up many times since then, most recently on Wednesday, when somebody asked me about him and whether I think about him a lot. Not full-out bawling, but tears down the face, for sure. Hell, my eyes are watering now just typing this. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/37 "2024-11-03T00:15:37Z")
When my sister died a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/38 "2024-11-03T00:27:37Z")
I’m another one that tears up easily at cheap sentimentalism in movies or films. But actual crying? Losing my mother recently(ish) and a year or so before that a pet. The latter caught me by surprise, because he died on the operating table and it wasn’t until I came in later to view his body that it hit me unexpectedly. Before that it was quite a long time. But I have a bad feeling its going to escalate in frequency as I’m getting to that age… ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/39 "2024-11-03T01:00:07Z")
Today the Dallas Stars and the Florida Panthers played the second of two hockey games in Finland. There were four Panthers and three Stars who were from Finland. All seven of the Finns were on ice to start both games. Today the Star Spangled Banner was played by a Finnish violinist and it was the first time I ever thought of our anthem as “beautiful”. Then he played the Finnish anthem, and the Finnish crowd all stood and sang. Very beautiful and touching, and yes I cried. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570/40 "2024-11-03T01:15:20Z")
May 10, 2022. I was at work and my smart watch was ringing to indicate that someone was trying to call me. Joan’s caregiver, as it turned out. It was too loud to have a phone conversation over an Apple Watch, so I connected and just said she’d have to text me. Moments later the watch vibrated again and the words “Joan’s dead” came up on the screen. Cried for the entire 17-mile drive home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-the-last-time-you-cried/1009570.md?page=3)