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@Dreamer Rose, I just wanted to say that I am so very sorry about your son. Losing a child, no matter how old, is devastating and it leaves such a hole in your heart. I know I'd never be able to forget or get over it. The sadness would always be there in my heart. I'm very sorry for your loss. :hugs:

@Kat0121 I'm sorry about your husband. I knew you were a widow, but I didn't realize how young he was. :hugs: I'm really sorry.
 

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@Dreamer Rose, I just wanted to say that I am so very sorry about your son. Losing a child, no matter how old, is devastating and it leaves such a hole in your heart. I know I'd never be able to forget or get over it. The sadness would always be there in my heart. I'm very sorry for your loss. :hugs:

@Kat0121 I'm sorry about your husband. I knew you were a widow, but I didn't realize how young he was. :hugs: I'm really sorry.
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Your mention of the Blair Witch Project reminded me of another movie I watched call Grave Halloween. (It took place in a forest.)
This movie, although fictional, does base the plot on the real "Suicide Forest" In Japan.
Aokigahara (the
Suicide Forest) in more modern times is where many Japanese will go to commit suicide, it is said that over 100 suicides are committed there every year.
The modern legend says that the ghosts of these poor souls still wander the forest sad and miserable.
But earlier Legends describe this forest as a place where during times of poverty, the Japanese would bring their dependent elderly deep into the forest and let them die. And it is the angry souls of the discarded elderly that raom the forests.

(there is more to the legends than my description, I'm just giving the gist of it)
So the spooky legends about the forest may or may not be true, but it is true that it is a place where people will go to commit suicide.
It is also a popular tourist attraction due to the beauty of the forest itself, and a few famous caves.
I never knew that. Have you ever watched the documentary on the Aokigahara?
There are some upsetting images. My stomach isn't too weak but even I got upset a few times, but really respect the guy doing this job. I really like how he'll check a tent to see if the person is still alive and try to talk to them a bit, try to get them to go home.
 
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I believe that movie was filmed in Montgomery Co. Md. I went to see it and did not like it much. It was not filmed far from where I live.
I didn't like it a whole lot either, the sequel was just weird. The end was good, but the entire thing was just......strange.
 

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I never knew that. Have you ever watched the documentary on the Aokigahara?
There are some upsetting images. My stomach isn't too weak but even I got upset a few times, but really respect the guy doing this job. I really like how he'll check a tent to see if the person is still alive and try to talk to them a bit, try to get them to go home.
A dear friend of mine did this. I miss her every day.
 

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Here too. It's such a terrible waste. A permanent solution to a temporary problem :(
I'm sorry for your loss, too. Yeah, it is, though in my friend's case, she really was up against a wall and no one around her could see a solution to get her out of the crisis. Her family, who SHOULD have helped her, didn't. The world lost a wonderful, funny, caring, creative, beautiful person.
 

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I'm sorry for your loss, too. Yeah, it is, though in my friend's case, she really was up against a wall and no one around her could see a solution to get her out of the crisis. Her family, who SHOULD have helped her, didn't. The world lost a wonderful, funny, caring, creative, beautiful person.
Our loss is heavens gain :redheartpump:
When the family won't help, it just makes the thoughts of feeling inadequate get bigger.
Creativity goes with sensitivity. I think creative people feel things very intensely good or bad. I sincerely hope your friend is at peace.
 

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Our loss is heavens gain :redheartpump:
When the family won't help, it just makes the thoughts of feeling inadequate get bigger.
Creativity goes with sensitivity. I think creative people feel things very intensely good or bad. I sincerely hope your friend is at peace.
Thank you, very much. You're right. Yeah, she was wired pretty tight. She was very intelligent, very sensitive, and thought very deeply about things. I inherited her two beloved cats. That's what really got to me -- that she felt so helpless she checked out leaving them. She stipulated they go either to their vets or to me. Their vets couldn't take them, so I did.
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I bet the vets was the back up plan. She wanted you to have them.
Thank you for being a good friend to her :hellocomputer:
Not good enough. I'll always carry that with me. When I told my folks, they said that they would have helped her if they had known. Of course, we can all say we "didn't know" but she was terribly, terribly depressed for some time, because her work had disappeared and she didn't know what to do to continue being able to eat, pay rent, and so on. She was a lot older than me, and not far from "retirement age", so it wasn't like she could just get a job easily and her field was very rarefied.
I think she did want the vets to adopt them, but I was a good second, and I loved them dearly. Always will.
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Lady Kinoko's Goldenrain tree memorial, in the Mojave, is on the right. Tomo-Taisho is with me.
 

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Not good enough. I'll always carry that with me. When I told my folks, they said that they would have helped her if they had known. Of course, we can all say we "didn't know" but she was terribly, terribly depressed for some time, because her work had disappeared and she didn't know what to do to continue being able to eat, pay rent, and so on. She was a lot older than me, and not far from "retirement age", so it wasn't like she could just get a job easily and her field was very rarefied.
I think she did want the vets to adopt them, but I was a good second, and I loved them dearly. Always will.View attachment 289897Lady Kinoko's Goldenrain tree memorial, in the Mojave, is on the right. Tomo-Taisho is with me.
Beautiful tree memorial. More later.
 

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Your mention of the Blair Witch Project reminded me of another movie I watched call Grave Halloween. (It took place in a forest.)
This movie, although fictional, does base the plot on the real "Suicide Forest" In Japan.
Aokigahara (the
Suicide Forest) in more modern times is where many Japanese will go to commit suicide, it is said that over 100 suicides are committed there every year.
The modern legend says that the ghosts of these poor souls still wander the forest sad and miserable.
But earlier Legends describe this forest as a place where during times of poverty, the Japanese would bring their dependent elderly deep into the forest and let them die. And it is the angry souls of the discarded elderly that raom the forests.

(there is more to the legends than my description, I'm just giving the gist of it)
So the spooky legends about the forest may or may not be true, but it is true that it is a place where people will go to commit suicide.
It is also a popular tourist attraction due to the beauty of the forest itself, and a few famous caves.
I just got Grave Halloween from the library. How scary is it? :eek2::help::eek:
 
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I just got Grave Halloween from the library. How scary is it? :eek2::help::eek:
Honestly, I don't scare easily, so I'm not the right person to ask. But it's creepy and there are "surprise/startle" moments. The movie is a bit cheesy though too, but again, there have been some "horror" movies that I've literally laughed at.
IDK, maybe there's something wrong with me!:confused2:
 

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Honestly, I don't scare easily, so I'm not the right person to ask. But it's creepy and there are "surprise/startle" moments. The movie is a bit cheesy though too, but again, there have been some "horror" movies that I've literally laughed at.
IDK, maybe there's something wrong with me!:confused2:
I love the surprise/startle moments. :yess:
 

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I've always believed that you lose about 75% of your body heat through your head and I recently read that it isn't true. I don't have a source but the article said we lose the same amount of heat everywhere in our bodies.
 

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In cold weather, you do lose more heat from your head because, unlike in the rest of the body, the blood vessels lack the ability to constrict. This is a mechanism to protect the most vital areas of the body, and also why your hands and feet get cold first.
 

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I've always believed that you lose about 75% of your body heat through your head and I recently read that it isn't true. I don't have a source but the article said we lose the same amount of heat everywhere in our bodies.
From what I've read: yes, you do lose the same amount of heat from your head as any part of your body. BUT, the rest of your body is usually covered when it's cold out. So for practical purposes, most people do lose most of their body heat from their head in cold weather. Wear a hat!
 

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True. But the insensitivity of people at the time was almost as bad as the pain of his dying. This story, told to me only six weeks after his death, is an example. I would never tell someone with a recent loss a story like that. Someone else said at the same time, six weeks after, "Haven't you gotten over that yet?"
If it was me in that situation, I would have punched that person in the face and then asked "Have you gotten over it yet?" when I would run into them. If ever they said yes, I would punch them in the face again and resume asking if they had gotten over it yet.
 

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If it was me in that situation, I would have punched that person in the face and then asked "Have you gotten over it yet?" when I would run into them. If ever they said yes, I would punch them in the face again and resume asking if they had gotten over it yet.
After you had to pay their medical bills and deal with an assault conviction :tongue:. It would be tempting if someone behaved like that though.
 
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