{"id":3344,"date":"2011-11-09T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/11\/09\/thank-you\/"},"modified":"2011-11-09T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T22:30:50","slug":"thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/11\/09\/thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIf there&#8217;s been one comfort during this awful week it has been the support and sympathy I&#8217;ve gotten not just from my family, but from everybody who has taken the time to write in. I also want to thank Tom Spurgeon and <cite>File 770<\/cite> for putting up condoleance notices, something I hadn&#8217;t expected at all. It means a lot to us, this kindness both from old friends and those who have only known us through the internet. It is especially nice to see so many old afpers comment, since Sandra and I had dropped out in the last couple of years, as first financial and then her health problems kept us away. Glad to see she hasn&#8217;t been forgotten. Earlier this year when it did still seem that she might be cured enough to start leading a normal life again, we did talk about going over for the con next year, which I may still do.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTerry Pratchett fandom was how we met; his documentary on the right to die helped crystallise her conviction to take control of her own death, to die on her own terms rather than wait for another calamity to kill her. Once she decided that her situation wasn&#8217;t going to improve, she chose the best death she could get and got it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTomorrow is the funeral, when she will be cremated so that sometime next year her sons and I can scatter her ashes at one of her favourite spots in Devon. Neither she nor I believe in life after death: for her everything was over last Monday; for me life without her is just beginning. It&#8217;s going to be hard, but for her sake as well as mine I have to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s been one comfort during this awful week it has been the support and sympathy I&#8217;ve gotten not just from my family, but from everybody who has taken the time to write in. I also want to thank Tom Spurgeon and File 770 for putting up condoleance notices, something I hadn&#8217;t expected at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2492],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","tag-sandra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}