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Igor wrote:Thanks everyone. She was a chronic alcoholic and things just deteriorated very quickly back in October. Suddenly she was yellow, frail, abdomen swollen. All in all, she was seemingly healthy to dead in less than three months. I'm 31 and have been living my own life away from her for the last decade but I'm still dealing with a guilty conscious over not doing something to stop the drinking but I'm seeing a therapist again once the funeral is out of the way so that should help.

Pretty tragic situation, to be honest, my two youngest brothers are 9 and 10, she had them 20 years after she had me.

Igor wrote:My mother died last Wednesday night, just 50 years old. Without consulting anyone other than my OAP grandmother who just last year figured out 'the internet' (read: she can now access Facebook), some old school friend of my mother set up a GoFundMe not more than 72 hours after she'd died, to 'help pay for funeral expenses, etc'.

Some people, strawberry float me. Nothing said to me our my younger brother, nothing said to my mother's partner - just straight begging for charity on our behalf. We only found out because my brother was scrolling through Facebook and suddenly sees a close up picture of my now-dead mother's face she'd kindly included in her Facebook post.

Why do some people love muscling in on other people's grief?