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Valkyrie wrote: Saying goodbye to one of my dogs everytime I go back to uni. He's 16 now, probably won't last another year, everytime I leave I think this'll be the last time I see him.
Whew, it was hard enough saying goodbye to my oldest dog last August when I knew it was time. Having to continue to do so sounds horrible. I feel for you, Dude.
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Valkyrie wrote: Saying goodbye to one of my dogs everytime I go back to uni. He's 16 now, probably won't last another year, everytime I leave I think this'll be the last time I see him.
Whew, it was hard enough saying goodbye to my oldest dog last August when I knew it was time. Having to continue to do so sounds horrible. I feel for you, Dude.
Thankfully i've never been present when a family dog was put down, aside from my girlfriends bulldog.... but he was nearly 14, senile, and a lot of pain... and ironically, died the night before we were going to put him to sleep (i know some of you are saying "yeah right!".... well its not quite so storybook as that. We spent the day doing his favorite things, and he actually choked to death that night on his favorite type of bone. I gak you not. Had got the damn things for him a million times ; he choked to death on the one we got him to make his last night extra special (got him 3 actually... he loved them.... choked on the first one). I even tried to give him the heimlich maneuver ( i gak you not). I literally watched him pass out and die as i was trying to force the thing out of his throat / clear his airway.
feth. That was sad.
There is a video or blog out there about an owner with her black lab the last day before they put it down (cancer i think) ... playing ball, going for a walk, eating an entire plate of cheeseburgers. fething heartbreaking.
Honestly, most human pain doesn't bother me at all. Most people have been wretched awful creatures at some point in their life, and its just cosmic karma catching up. Animals ? Oh hell no. Every time i see those HSPCA commercials with the cold and shivering dogs, out comes the wallet for a donation.
Putting my 18 and 22 year old cats to sleep was also really sad. I used to joke that Rascal (22 year old - all white except for tan tip of her tail, and blue blue blue eyes) would come drinking with me at a bar. I was only 5 years older than her. Had that cat nearly as long back as i was able to remember.
Though i guess pets dying is not "unusual".
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Valkyrie wrote: Saying goodbye to one of my dogs everytime I go back to uni. He's 16 now, probably won't last another year, everytime I leave I think this'll be the last time I see him.
Whew, it was hard enough saying goodbye to my oldest dog last August when I knew it was time. Having to continue to do so sounds horrible. I feel for you, Dude.
Thankfully i've never been present when a family dog was put down, aside from my girlfriends bulldog.... but he was nearly 14, senile, and a lot of pain... and ironically, died the night before we were going to put him to sleep (i know some of you are saying "yeah right!".... well its not quite so storybook as that. We spent the day doing his favorite things, and he actually choked to death that night on his favorite type of bone. I gak you not. Had got the damn things for him a million times ; he choked to death on the one we got him to make his last night extra special (got him 3 actually... he loved them.... choked on the first one). I even tried to give him the heimlich maneuver ( i gak you not). I literally watched him pass out and die as i was trying to force the thing out of his throat / clear his airway.
feth. That was sad.
There is a video or blog out there about an owner with her black lab the last day before they put it down (cancer i think) ... playing ball, going for a walk, eating an entire plate of cheeseburgers. fething heartbreaking.
Honestly, most human pain doesn't bother me at all. Most people have been wretched awful creatures at some point in their life, and its just cosmic karma catching up. Animals ? Oh hell no. Every time i see those HSPCA commercials with the cold and shivering dogs, out comes the wallet for a donation.
Putting my 18 and 22 year old cats to sleep was also really sad. I used to joke that Rascal (22 year old - all white except for tan tip of her tail, and blue blue blue eyes) would come drinking with me at a bar. I was only 5 years older than her. Had that cat nearly as long back as i was able to remember.
Though i guess pets dying is not "unusual".
All too real, man. This past December I had to put down my tabby who was only 3 1/2 years old. We had gotten the tuxedo about 2 weeks prior and ended up getting the tabby from the same litter because he need a friend. The worst part is we took the tabby to the vet 3 days prior and he had to stay, so when we came home 3 days later without him, his brother just kept pacing the house looking for him.
Jihadin wrote: Seeing the mass graves in Bosnia and later some in Kosovo
Why is that unusual?
Because Jihadin, like myself are soldiers... in theory we're supposed to be "trained" not to feel emotions at that kind of thing... I know it sounds stupid, but in my time on Active Duty there really was a sort of, unspoken, yet expected "you're a tough SOB soldier, you don't shed a tear for jack and gak"
There are some things that I saw in Iraq that, IMO would/should make any grown person cry.
Growing up, I never really had too many 'feels' about, say, for example, Bambi's mother.
But this THIS. THIS completely got me and still dredges things up.
Its worth saying that the availability of Transformer videos growing up, and the sporadic nature of them being shown of TV meant that for my entire childhood, Optimus Prime was dead. None of this Season 4 The Rebirth. My childhood hero was on a slab, dead.
Oddly enough, the one unusual thing that really gets me is the end of my first novel. I must have read it a dozen+ or so tims between editing and just re-reading for reference, and every time, I find myself on a real down afterwards. It's odd as I know what happens (I wrote the damn thing, for goodness sake), but seeing what happens to these characters I have spent so long with (ok, what I did to them) really hits me hard. I don't know how much of it is me filling in the gaps in my head, or whether it is genuinely such a sad piece of writing (it has reduced others to tears).
Not exactly unusual, but I have had to pause Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at an hour and twenty-five mins in.
I swear I didn't cry this much last time I watched it, and luckily I had a tissue in my pocket, but I know there's more coming up so I had to go get the entire box for good measure, and calm myself down a bit.
So not unusual in it being horrifically sad and heartbreaking, but unusual in that I'm crying at it more.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Also, the only movie I can remember crying in was...Star Wars Episode 3 (yes, seriously). The "Order 66 montage" was just so completely unexpected and the idea of getting shot in the back by the people you were fighting alongside a few seconds ago really got to me.
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Avatar 720 wrote:Not exactly unusual, but I have had to pause Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at an hour and twenty-five mins in.
Which bit is that? I haven't watched it in a while.
dementedwombat wrote:The 3rd mission of Homeworld. Gets me every time.
Also, the only movie I can remember crying in was...Star Wars Episode 3 (yes, seriously). The "Order 66 montage" was just so completely unexpected and the idea of getting shot in the back by the people you were fighting alongside a few seconds ago really got to me.
While it didn't bring me to tears, I'll agree here. A brilliant scene in an otherwise mediocre film, and very well done.
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Avatar 720 wrote:Not exactly unusual, but I have had to pause Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 at an hour and twenty-five mins in.
Which bit is that? I haven't watched it in a while.
Just after Snape's death and the subsequent pensieve scene, and just before the Resurrection Stone scene.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Ah, I see. One of the best-written parts of the book, too. (Seriously, Snape is the one thing that takes the series above the average, best-written charatcer in it by miles.)
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