Dying

by on June 28, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Dying can be expensive. Don’t get me wrong. Me and Mom prepared for this. We spent the last few months making sure I could keep her finances running if the worst happened, while we hoped for the best. I bought her house and paid it off. And we did numerous other small and sundry things to make certain that things wouldn’t slip through the cracks. But even so, dying can be expensive. Cremation costs. Burial costs. Service costs. I don’t even know what all costs there will be. This is my first time organizing someone’s End of Life, but the cremation alone is a thousand dollars. I expect other costs to pile on, so I am looking for donations to help defray them. I’ve created a pair of donation campaigns if you feel comfortable giving something. Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

https://www.givesendgo.com/G3DU1

https://www.gofundme.com/f/judy-prohaska

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Louis

by on June 27, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The collapse of Louis Mattioli’s old law firm covered the front pages of every major news network. It had everything needed to hold the public’s attention for at least a few days. Corrupt partners disappearing into the stars. Employees left high and dry at a firm too broke to even pay their wages. And then there was Louis. His first reaction to the news was to guarantee their wages while the bankruptcy court went to work. As long as they were willing to work for him, of course. There were a number of companies looking for legal representation after all, and he would need a large number of employees to service those contracts. Many of the firm’s employees accepted his offer, including a majority of the old timers who had been around when he built the place, and Louis massively expanded the reach of his firm in a matter of days. He did not pick up all the contracts, since many companies wanted out of the whole situation, but he picked up enough to easily pay his new employees.

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Louis

by on June 26, 2022 at 12:01 am
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The law firm Louis built did not survive the debacle outside the Alpha Centauri Supreme Court. Not because Louis escalated his tactics, mind you. He stayed well away from anything that might be considered an escalation. But no one wanted to be represented by the firm trying to kill the folk hero named Louis Mattioli. They may just be stories and rumors, and Louis never called the new partners out, but the companies still doing business with them could no longer ignore the stories. Every major corporation on Earth and Alpha Centauri ended their contracts with the law firm and that sounded their death knell. The partners were not ones to admit defeat easily though. They snatched up all of the fungible assets the firm still had, and went to the stars with enough money to finance very comfortable lives on planets that lacked extradition treaties with Earth. The firm quickly collapsed behind them.

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Leaving

by on June 25, 2022 at 12:01 am
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For those of you who are dealing with a loved one about to leave, it is important that you talk to them. They can hear you, even at the end when all they are doing is sleeping. I told my mom many weeks ago that if she wanted to stop taking her cancer treatments, I would support her. She was getting worse, not better, and there didn’t look like any possibility of things getter better. So she decided. And on Wednesday, before I left the room, I told her that if she wanted to leave, I understood, and I loved her. That if she was trying to hang on to keep from hurting me, she could go. I was good. And when I left, she left as well. It is important that you talk to your loved ones. Because they will love you to their dying breaths, and it is important for them to know that you will not suffer in their absence. It will hurt. It always will. Love is like that. But when they are leaving, it is important for us who are staying to let them know we won’t suffer.

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Remembrances

by on June 24, 2022 at 12:01 am
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I am planning three remembrances for mom in the coming weeks. On July the 2nd, for family and friends in Rochester, we are getting together at the hotel I work at. TownePlace Suites Rochester. The one on 43rd Street NW, not Second St. I’m looking at a start time of 2PM and going until people feel like leaving. We have rooms available right now if you want to stay the night. There is a VFW next door if food is wanted. I could also cater something in if wished. Still planning all this out. Then we are planning on a service open to all on July the 16th at Maine Presbyterian Church in Maine Township in Northern Minnesota, followed by a burial across the road at Silent Vale Cemetery. It’s where our family is generally buried, and our plot is four rows from where her parents rest. Soon she will join them. The third remembrance to fulfill one of her last requests will probably be a much smaller affair, on or around the 16th.

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