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Gone Too Soon? Well. . . maybe.

Posted by Ken on January 5, 2008 8:00 PM | 

I was grave hopping on the Gone Too Soon website the other day.
That might strike you as a somewhat morbid thing to do, but I was merely curious I assure you.

I can't quite explain why. . .although I suspect it had something to do with turning 49 the other day and the fact that I'm now contemplating my own mortality along with my navel.


One of the obits that caught my eye was that of Doris Gibson, who died in September 2006. . . aged 85.

It popped up at the top of the list after a relative added a new message wishing the dearly departed old dear a happy new year.

Now, I'm sure Doris was a lovely woman who continues to be greatly missed by all who knew her.

But was she really 'gone too soon'? Call me picky, but isn't 85 a decent innings? After a little more surfing amongst the stiffs I soon discovered Doris wasn't an isolated entry.

There was Thomas Mooney, who died aged 84, and Joyce Brown, who pegged it at 80.

So I got to thinking. . . perhaps the people behind the Gone Too Soon website should launch a sister site? Something like Gone At Roughly The Right Time.

There could even be a third site for thoroughly awful individuals (rapists, murderers etc) who managed to live to a ripe old age, which could be called Didn't Go Soon Enough.

It would be a sure fire winner, don't you think?


Comments (16)

Jo wrote...

Your cheap humour is simply disgusting...for all those that have lost loved ones recent and past, gone too soon sums it up quite nicely. I notice you do work for the sun....you seem to have been labeled and placed in the right compartment!!!

Posted by: Jo  | April 7, 2008 6:50 PM

stephanie wrote...

well i cannot express what i feel what an arseole to just go through these personnel messages of love and grief...i lost my son 28 years of age why why why why

Posted by: stephanie  | April 15, 2008 7:18 PM

mary wrote...

your pathetic...!

Posted by: mary  | April 17, 2008 3:00 PM

stacey wrote...

Obviously you are hard up for something to write about so you thought you'd go for cheap nasty laughs - how spiteful. That site offers so much to people like myself who have lost someone dear.
One day you might get a heart but until then shut you ignorant trap!

Posted by: stacey  | May 2, 2008 1:03 PM

A. Fisher wrote...

ISorry, But I don't agree with your remarks.
I lost my devoted mum february 2007, as a result of a Doctors error, she had a water infection, and therfore the doctor
took it upon himself to take her off all
her regular medication i.e Heart and water tablets, which she was taking for 20 years and caused her to have massive heart attack, which she had never had!
So I don't think anyone can say someone has had a good innings whatever thats supposed to mean??
Still Greiving..
But I will not leave this matter, and have been following lines of inquiries,
and intend to get justice for my dear mum.

Posted by: A. Fisher  | May 2, 2008 4:56 PM

Anonymous wrote...

Your a prick !

Posted by: Anonymous  | May 9, 2008 1:48 PM

george wrote...

I doubt anyone one will be bothered to create a memorial site for you, your better off forgotten.

Posted by: george  | May 15, 2008 9:09 PM

samantha wrote...

I found it amusing maybe a little too sensitive for some! Death is a serious and sensitive subject but its part of life and life is laughter!!!lighten up people it seems to me as something not to be taken seriously my gran died age 79 smoked her self away... lovely lady miss her dearly like a mum to me but she had a good life and i would never describe her death to be "too soon" its out of our hands lets be honest! when your times up its up!

Posted by: samantha  | May 22, 2008 10:26 AM

Anonymous wrote...

Your right it is out our hand's but some people find compfort in this website and I dont think it should be made a joke of.

Posted by: Anonymous  | May 29, 2008 5:15 PM

Susan Moon wrote...

How awful of this complete insensitive idiot, Yes you can say a lot of entries on the Gone too Soon site were "old" but many more are not. It is a great site for people like me who have lost a child, or a loved one to create a site to remember them by. My daughter was 16 and i hate prats like you refering to them as stiffs. Have a little compassion, and grow up i thought you said you were 49 not 9

Posted by: Susan Moon  | June 1, 2008 9:15 PM

JAYNE wrote...

HOW RUDE OF YOU TO WRIGHT THOSE COMMENTS, YOU EVEN HAD TO NERVE TO INCLUDE PEOPLES NAMES, I HOPE YOU ARE PLEASED AND PROUD OF YOURSELF, TO ME YOU ARE A RUDE INCENSATIVE PRATT

Posted by: JAYNE  | June 12, 2008 12:53 PM

Ronnie Lambert wrote...

I'll own up Ken, I'm checking out other blogsters as I might have my own, sometime soon. Your other topics are all pleasant enough, even safe, but it only goes to show that there are some subjects that will rile at least a few people occasionally. A***hole and p***k were a bit strong though. My dad died at the ripe old age of 54, now in cricket terms that's not a bad knock, you even get to salute the applause with your raised bat. Point is, nowt really bugs me to retort with heavy expletives, especially death. At 57 I've seen off most of my older relations and laughed in the crem' many times. e.g. my dad's nickname was Spin, and as we stood shaking hands in the garden of remembrance, my old wag of a buddy noticed the white smoke ascending from the furnace chimney and casually remarked, " There's Spin away then " as he waved to the smoke. It depends on how you were brought up I reckon, my old man would've gotten that line in first and probably had many times before.

Posted by: Ronnie Lambert  | June 15, 2008 2:32 PM

Lady wrote...

Losing a loved one is distressing. Doctors are human and they do make mistakes. A daunting career to say the least.

Posted by: Lady  | June 15, 2008 4:42 PM

emily wrote...

what an idiot. stiffs? How rude are u? Why even look through a memorial website if u havent lost someone. For entertainment?. Well my boys dad is on there, he died at 36. Gone to soon? Or is he in the too old age bracket? My stepdad died afew weeks back, he was 53. Was he too old?..my next door neighbour died this moring must of been in her 70's. Too old?
Well let me tell u something, i think it was too soon for my kids dad and stepdad to die, and maybe that womans family felt it was to sudden and soon for her to die. Dont be so pedantic. No matter what the age, its always too soon to lose someone you love.

Posted by: emily  | July 4, 2008 1:47 PM

trace wrote...

hi
i thought id add a little some thing
im sorry to offend
but i literally laughed out loud when i read what the sun writer had said.
i ahve to agreew ith him oops sorry.
i dont think he is aughing at the people that have died at all,
hes laughing at the name of the site and the very od people on there,
i do agree that it seems ironic at 84 and 85 to have gone too soon,
christ how old do they want to be.
be like the movie soon cocoon lol.
im all for web sites thatpeople can leave there feelings on and light candles etc, he was not laughing at that ,it was just the name and the ages thats all can you not see that, i am still laughingto be honest.i bet doris and them golden oldies would be .

Posted by: trace  | July 21, 2008 9:36 AM

sade fleming wrote...

well i kind of understand what you're saying, gone 2 soon is for people who did go too soon. i agree there should be another site for people who died naturally of old age. i know people on this site who did go too soon i.e a 3yr old and a 12yr old and i understand that at the moment there isn't another site for people who luckily lived until old age and died naturally so until then there's definately no harm them being on this site!

Posted by: sade fleming  | July 23, 2008 4:52 PM

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