[wreckedmess]

I just got word about a friend who passed last week, it seems his mother has been receiving phone calls from one of his ex friends. They cut ties years ago because the guy was up to no good. Now he is calling to harass the family into giving him stuff of the son that passed. What is wrong with people, it makes me so angry that I want to just scream.

[craftykris]

Seriously? How sick is that! You don't contact anyone when someone passes. You let the family deal with the loss of their loved one. I can't imagine this happening to me or my family.

[wreckedmess]

I have a feeling this idiot is going to show up at the wake and all hell might break lose. After having lost both of my parents at a young age and being a parent now, I feel for this guys family. I really hope everything goes drama free too.

[craftykris]

Drama free is the best way. I was a bit scared at my gram's funeral/calling hours and wake. We have some shady family members and I thought they would raise a "big stink". Luckily for them - they did not.

I hope all goes well at your friends wake.

[wreckedmess]

That is the other thing, I thought only family really did stuff like this. Seems this is a guy that went to school with the friend who passed, had been to his house and knows the family very well. It makes me wonder if the guy is unstable and on drugs or something.

[Izzie]

I would suggest to the family that someone be on the lookout for this guy, and have him escorted out if he starts to cause trouble. The funeral homes are generally very nice about that kind of thing. Unfortunately, we had to put them on stand-by for some family members at a recent funeral we had.

[MaryBeth]

We knew two unmarried and childless women, now deceased, who had lived together since the 1920s. They did everything together, from buying furniture to going in on wedding gifts to give together. When the first one died, the other one's cousins came out of the woodwork to claim their half of china, silver and even the furniture in the house. There was no will, unfortunately, and the surviving lady was too distraught to do other than give things to the creeps.

[wreckedmess]

MaryBeth that sounds like what happened during my fathers funeral with my 1/2 sibling who I honestly can not stand. I have very little patience for people that "want, want, want" and do not "give, give, give".