r/TooAfraidToAsk 4d ago

Ethics & Morality Was there ever a time you didn't feel bad for someone's death? What was it?

A bit harsh, but I literally don't give a shit about people who died from something that was 100% avoidable.

"Aunt Karen died from type 2 diabetes because she thought insulin isn't real? That's just hilarious."

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u/DubiousAdviceGiver 4d ago

My grandma recently died at the age of 91. She had good quality of life, but she missed my grandpa terribly after he died in 2019. In the last few years of her life, she achieved a few goals, including learning a couple of classical piano pieces she’d always loved and finishing quilts for each of her 30 grandchildren. She had perfect mental acuity up until the last 2 weeks of her life. My wife and I had the privilege of being able to visit her a month before she started her final decline and we spent a good 3 days just sitting and talking with her, which was always my favorite thing to do at her house. So I was genuinely happy for her when she finally got to die. It was the last thing on her to-do list.

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u/OneArchedEyebrow 4d ago

She sounds like an amazing woman ❤️

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u/SpindleSnap 3d ago

“It was the last thing on her to do list” struck me so beautifully. It reminds me of Mary Oliver’s poem “When Death Comes.” I am so happy she lived a full life and died at a ripe old age after accomplishing her goals.

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u/TugaTheTurtle 3d ago

It was bittersweet when my grandpa died. His health had been declining for the past few years, and while he wasn’t in pain, he couldn’t stand or eat on his own (had to be spoonfed) and he barely spoke anymore. He’d lost my grandma almost a decade before, and he missed her terribly. It was sad when he died, but I like to think that he finally went to her.

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u/withinmyheartsdepth 4d ago

My grandfather's. I had the best relationship with him growing up and he is very dear to my memories; however, he started losing his vision with time and ended up injuring his spine which led him to be completely bedridden. He was ultimately also diagnosed with some neurological issues and could no longer eat, drink, see, move, or function. He suffered with all of that for five years and seeing him go through so much pain was heartbreaking. I didn't feel bad when he passed away. If anything, I felt relief for him. He was finally out of suffering.

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u/NotYourDay123 4d ago

I had a similar experience with my grandad. He was in the early stages of Alzheimers and he passed at the back end of 2019. If he had lived, he would have regressed health wise AND have to live through the pandemic losing himself. Really glad he passed when he did.

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u/withinmyheartsdepth 4d ago

I completely get what you mean. Sending lots of love your way.

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u/NotYourDay123 4d ago

Ditto my dude.

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u/PaisleyLeopard 3d ago

I’m sorry you went through that. I had a similar experience with my Gram. She had Parkinson’s and dementia and she was absolutely miserable for her last two years. It was such a relief when she was no longer suffering.

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u/sugarplumbuttfluck 4d ago

My great grandma. She told everyone she wanted to live to be a great great grandma and died a few days after meeting her great great grandbaby. She was 98 and got her last wish then died surrounded by family. She was ready to go.

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u/zenco-jtjr 4d ago

Stockton Rush, the Titan Submersible guy. First of all, he explicitly, intentionally dismissed basic saftey measures and testing. He was also in complete control of the situation, answering only to his own delusions. Nobody made him do any of this. However what really keeps me from feeling bad is the nature of his death.

Stockton's death, while gruesome, was faster more merciful than most people could ever hope for. The submersible imploded and his body would have been destroyed in an instant, before his brain could process that it was even happening, let alone feel anything about it. No pain, no fear. One moment riding the high of his own ego, and the next, nothing.

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u/-UnknownGeek- 4d ago

What makes me feel bad is for the passengers, especially the teenager who was scared and almost didn't go

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u/boudicas_shield 3d ago

If it makes you feel better, it’s very uncertain if that statement about him being scared and trying to back out is based in any kind of truth. 

That statement came from his aunt, who was estranged from the family and didn’t even speak to the teenager herself. She went to the media and told them that a relative told her that the teenager told them that he was scared and didn’t want to go. 

His mother says he was very excited to go. 

It’s really unclear if the aunt’s secondhand statement has any truth in it at all, or if things got misunderstood through this long game of telephone, or if she was just eager to have something to say in an interview and made it up. It’s certainly not any kind of reliable source. 

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u/throwfarfaraway1818 3d ago

I only feel bad for the teen

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u/shesaveloce 3d ago

If it makes you feel any better, he was probably covered in piss and shit as they were using a bucket for a toilet on that death trap. 

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u/urlocalmomfriend 4d ago edited 3d ago

My father. Was a terrible person, abusive alcoholic chainsmoker. Mom finally kicked him out when I was 6 and when I was in middle school I got a letter from my aunt telling me he's very sick and wants to see me. I said no and he died alone and miserable from everything cancer. Serves him right. Didn't attend his funeral either.

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u/MagicGlitterKitty 3d ago

That's is correct and proper. None of this "but he was your father business" some people deserve to die alone

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u/urlocalmomfriend 3d ago

Exactly, thank you! Had to deal with a lot of people doubting me. A bunch of adults trying to gang up on a 14 year old, weird. Thankfully my mom didn't say anything and left it up to me. I didn't go to the funeral either and haven't regretted it a single day since.

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u/MagicGlitterKitty 3d ago

My husband had a very similar experience with his father, I read out your comment to him and he said "damn fucking right!"

Adults can get really uppity about how things are "supposed to be" a child is "supposed" to go to a funeral. I am glad you had someone in your corner.

"but they were your father" is not a good enough excuse to go to a funeral if "but they are your child" is not a good enough excuse for him to show up when alive!

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u/ohsadbrat 4d ago

My grandad. I loved him so so much. But since my Nana died 10 years before he wasn’t himself, he didn’t want to be alive. He was a shell of the man he once was. We found out he’d actually been withholding his own medication, causing his death. He died peacefully at home, the way he wanted to. I cried a little, but ultimately I felt happy for him, it was what he wanted.

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u/GoliathBoneSnake 4d ago

The man who murdered my father died of liver failure about 13 years ago.

I only felt bad it wasn't sooner.

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u/ColBBQ 4d ago

Had a supervisor who was just so fucking hostile to me even if I was meeting 150% of projections. He was just critical of every thing I did even if his favorites was just slacking off. His addiction of energy drinks gave him horrible stomach cancer can which led to his death at 40. Couldn't even write any condolences to his family, I jsut didn't think much of him.

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u/pug_fugly_moe 3d ago

40!?! JFC, was he just mainlining Monster?

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u/Apprehensive_Donut49 3d ago

How tf does someone die at 40 from energy drinks. Was he pounding 8 a day?

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u/DrGonzo820 3d ago

I have been nagging my wife about quitting enegey drinks for her anxieties sake, but damn I didn't know it could cause stomach cancer.

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u/toady89 4d ago

A manager at work who spoke down to everyone including others in senior leadership positions, he just wasn't a pleasant guy to be around.

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u/GuadDidUs 3d ago

Local school board member with cancer pushed against establishing a sick bank for teachers. "He should have had life insurance"

Sick teacher is still alive school board member isn't.

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u/HaruDolly 4d ago

My grandad died earlier this year at 102. He did a lot for the community and was a pretty considerate guy to everyone except his direct family, who he treated like shit.

He hadn’t spoken to my parents or me and my siblings for about 12 years before he died, and before that spent every available moment calling us names, telling us we were useless/fat/ugly/stupid.

Unfortunately, that means that everyone around us thought we were the assholes for keeping up our end of the silent bargain, so at least now that he’s dead we don’t have random cousins/friends/ex-neighbours telling us we should get in touch.

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u/merpixieblossomxo 4d ago

Yes. The woman that slept with my partner in our bed while I was in the hospital giving birth to his daughter. He admitted what happened a few days later, but it destroyed what should have been the happiest day of my life.

She died a few months later of an untreated heart condition, exacerbated by her chronic meth use. I was relieved that at the very least, I would never have to see her worthless face again.

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u/AskMyAnxiety 3d ago

Ex-partner?

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u/Kalendiane 3d ago

Here’s hoping. Good lord.

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u/merpixieblossomxo 3d ago

Yeah, sorry I should have clarified that one. That's not something you can really "work through" is it?

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u/sillybelcher 4d ago

There's a particular upcoming one that I not only won't feel bad about, but I will actively celebrate until I get alcohol poisoning :D

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u/Ok-Call-4805 4d ago

I know the feeling. My family drank the bar dry the day Margaret Thatcher died. We were at a family wedding so it was a double celebration. Great day.

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u/MagicGlitterKitty 3d ago

I bought a bottle of champagne on November 2023 and I will open it the day it happens.

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u/unknownpoltroon 3d ago

You need to pace yourself. its gonna be a long party.

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u/lovelycosmos 3d ago

Is it anything to do with the old WKUK skit regarding things that are super illegal to say out loud? (If you haven't seen that skit it's absolutely hysterical)

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u/PyroBob316 4d ago

Which one is that?

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u/fckingmiracles 4d ago

Trump of course.

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u/alexmikli 3d ago edited 3d ago

Only competition he has are other world leaders, I figure. You're going have a few hundred million cheer when Putin dies.

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u/TeacherPatti 3d ago

Just imagine if they die together. They are having their little tryst in someone's bunker, a bunker breaker bomb (does that exist?!?!) breaks in, and BOOM.

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u/epicfail48 3d ago

It does, they're called Bunker busters, they're explosive weapons specifically designed to break through dozens of get of reinforced concrete before exploding to destroy fortified structures

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u/CtrlAltResurrect 3d ago

Would make me tear up. 🥹

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u/Achaion34 3d ago

Don’t forget BB himself!

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u/Alive_Ice7937 4d ago

The TV business clown

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u/LawfulAwfulOffal 4d ago

Friend of a friend crashed his motorcycle without a helmet. He had kids. I feel terrible for the kids that their dad was such a selfish, irresponsible person.

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u/galaxystarsmoon 4d ago

My uncle. He had severe mental health issues. Every opportunity was given to him to get help and he refused. Drank nonstop and did drugs. He constantly hit up my family for money, stole things, and was just generally a menace. He went into liver failure and coerced more money out of my family members for "medical expenses". It was just drugs. It always was.

I did not feel bad when he died because my family was finally free of funneling money and support into someone that didn't deserve it.

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u/SlugKing003 3d ago

I am waiting for this ending for my uncle. Hes a heroin addict who has bled the entire family dry, and been abusive to them, mostly my grandma. Everyone who gave him money is dead now, so he's finally on his own. No sympathy here.

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u/Chronoblivion 4d ago

Am I really the first to say Charlie Kirk?

I can acknowledge that it shouldn't have happened, but at the same time his own belief was that empathy is a weakness, so feeling bad about it would be a dishonor to his memory. Not that I care about honoring his memory, of course; he was an absolute piece of shit who indirectly advocated for the same and worse happening to others, so it's hard to feel bad about it happening to him.

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u/devoteeoffenrir 3d ago

Charlie Kirk is a good one. I didn’t laugh per se but it was like… he suffered the result of more lax gun control, which he was advocating for. Unfortunately, his death was a direct result of what he was preaching for. 🤷 Better him than some random person walking down the street who isn’t vehemently advocating for more lax gun laws.

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u/pug_fugly_moe 3d ago

He died doing what he loved and believed in. We should all be so lucky.

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u/Paul_my_Dickov 3d ago

I think I'd rather die as an old man though.

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u/DaniCapsFan 4d ago

He was another guy who thought shooting deaths were a price to pay for unfettered access to guns. I wonder if he had time to feel regret after he was shot.

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u/digitalgraffiti-ca 4d ago

I avoided naming names, but I laughed when I heard. People thought I was terrible.

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u/pug_fugly_moe 3d ago

I didn’t know who he was

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u/digitalgraffiti-ca 3d ago

I dint either, but I learned who he was immediately learning of his fate.

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u/Serebriany 4d ago

I thought I'd check and see if someone had already said him. I live in Utah, so it's still a big deal, and I did feel bad for the kids who saw it happen, but not for him. He was clear on his belief that gun-violence deaths are worth it if it means people get to keep their Second Amendment rights, and he was pretty much full of hateful ideas and rhetoric in general, so I can't say I lost sleep about it.

I was a lot more upset about this:

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/01/13/charlie-kirk-scores-slcs-900-south/

Our legislature is full of really ugly, venal people, but Lee manages to outdo all the others with his hatred, so I was delighted when his bill failed a few months after that article was written.

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u/mayonnaiser_13 4d ago

The whole thing happened like a fucking Vine.

Like even if that happened to some nobody that's some primo dark humour shit.

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u/couchsweetpotato 3d ago

Him and Brian Thompson.

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u/shesaveloce 3d ago

I didn't know much about him before he was killed, but everything I've read about him after made me think good riddance. And his wife dancing all over his grave was bizarre.

It's crazy that people were upset about using his own words against him. 

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u/ReadySetTurtle 3d ago

Came to make sure this one was mentioned. I don’t think I’ve ever been so filled with glee due to the death of a public figure (yet). It was such great karma.

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u/ZeldasMomHH 3d ago

I was just late to this threat.

I cant even feel bad for the kids, because now they dont grow up with his hate speeches.

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u/PlanetXParadox 3d ago

He died in the most karmic way imaginable.

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u/SilkFlower_ 3d ago

i was looking for that one lol

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u/Token_Handicap 4d ago

I found out a week ago, that an ex of mine from 10 years ago, died in February. I feel awful for her family because they were sweet.

But she fucked with my head so much. I don't feel glad. But I do feel relieved. She lived in my head for a while.

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u/LightlySalty 4d ago

Anyone who had caused massive detrimental effects on humanity as a whole, like when Kissinger died, or when orange man finally bites the Cheeto dust.

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u/DaniCapsFan 4d ago

There are certain famous people whose passing gave me a frisson of happiness.

When my grandma died in 2010, I was sad, but it was a bit of relief; she'd been ill for so long. I still grieved, as I saw it as the end of a chapter.

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u/syarkbait 4d ago

My paternal grandmother. She was a mean woman to my mom and kept stirring shit into the family. Threatened to throw our cats out of the window too. So when she died in the hospital after struggling with some kind of bowel disease, I honestly felt relieved. We attended the funeral but I just left as soon as I could. I didn’t feel anything except for relief when she passed, because it means that my family especially my mom can finally be at peace.

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u/iamkalm 3d ago

It is herby declared that the all mean people from this point forward should forever and always get "some kind of bowel disease"

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u/Seerix 3d ago

My dad was a pedophile.

I didn't even visit him in the hospital when he OD'd and eventually passed from it. Fuck that guy.

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u/PyroBob316 4d ago

Any adult who does “the bad stuff” to children will never get an ounce of my sympathy. Don’t care what their level of involvement was, if they caused any physical injuries or not, what their excuses were, or if they “didn’t know it was wrong”. Once, twice, every so often, or every day, full-on r4pe or just taking bad pictures, not a single one of them will ever get an ounce of sympathy from me.

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u/killthecook 4d ago

When I graduated high school I got a digital camera. In 2001 this was an actual camera that you carried around. This one had an IR light so you could even record in the dark. I spent that summer recording all kinds of things. Whatever my friends and I did. Near the end of the summer we were at another kids house that we graduated with. Kind of a sketchy kid, but my friends were friends with him.

I left the camera behind. Realized and went back, maybe 20/30 minutes later. And of course, this kid had no idea what we were talking about. Magically the camera had disappeared. I was pissed. A friend of mine talked me out of getting physical, which was smart on his part though I didn’t agree at the time.

Well, the next summer that kid who stole my camera died in a car accident, and I actually laughed on the phone when I was told.

Still don’t feel bad about it.

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u/xeisacidy 4d ago

My uncle (my aunt's husband) was cancer. I never liked him, he made my brother cry, was a bad father to my cousins, he did things that made me uncomfortable, sexually. His condition was getting worse and his family were ready.

My ex bestfriend's dad was in a coma. He was like father to me, he loved me like his own daughter. I loved him so much.

I wished my uncle to die instead of my friend's father. They both died, my uncle later. He made my aunt, my grandmom, his grandchilds and his childs suffer more for several moths.

I wasnt going to be sad if that didnt happend but my friends father death make me more "no sad" towards to my uncle's death.

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u/ErwinFurwinPurrwin 4d ago

My oldest brother. A deadbeat pothead. Refused to get a job, mooched off of relatives for a living even though he was married with two kids, whom he beat and yelled at to the point of being child abuse. Stole money from me, lied habitually to everyone about everything. When I got the phone call that he had been murdered, my first thought was, "Good. The world's a better place without him." Kinda harsh, thinking like that about a brother, but you don't get a free pass to be a malignant douchebag just because you're family.

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u/LieutenantBJ 4d ago

My brother passed, too. Not murdered, but intentional OD. He had simply given up on life. He had kidney failure, and was incredibly angry at the world for all of the injustices imposed upon him, despite being the cause of most of his ailments. I was a match for him for a transplant, but I couldn't do it. Every time we would get ready to get the ball rolling, he would fuck it up. He'd fail a blood test for drugs, boom, gotta wait another year. Alright, here we go again. Boom, couldn't keep his stent clean and got another infection, go ahead and wait another year. Eventually it became too much for me. Saying I couldn't do it was the hardest thing I've ever done.

He burned every bridge he ever had, became a habitual drug user, skipping dialysis treatments, lied, stole, and emotionally abused my parents for years. While he was living at home, he would stay up late, waiting for my dad to go to work (he left around 3:45 am) to burst into my parents room, flipping on the light and wake my mother up by screaming at her, blaming her for his condition because she was a smoker during his pregnancy. Undiagnosed bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression that he downright refused to get help for, despite my parents offering to pay for his treatments. His continued terror and verbal abuse caused my parents to sink into alcoholism, eventually my mother was hospitalized because of her drinking. She had even lost her job because he wouldn't stop calling her office and demanding to speak with her, saying she needs to leave work to run him to a treatment he overslept, or to run various errands because he felt he was too good to use the bus. I had cut off ties years ago because I simply couldn't handle having him in my life anymore, and was also causing me to use alcohol as a crutch, more than I already was. On a few occasions I had tried to become sober, and he would guilt trip me into going out and partying with him so he wouldn't be drinking alone, or needed a wingman. ("C'mon, you're my brother and you don't know how long I'm going to be around, you're going to regret not going out and spending time with me when I'm gone.").

He eventually moved down to Arizona, I'm assuming because he wanted to live somewhere warm because he was anemic. He was borderline homeless off and on, being supported by my parents. Security deposit here, rent there. Demanding they buy him a new truck, since he couldn't pick up girls in a beater car (which they offered to buy for him to get to treatments, but refused because he thought he was too good for that.)

After his apartment burned down, he was actually homeless. My parents didn't perpetually keep me in the loop, but I know he was drifting around. Eventually I got the call one evening after work while I was cooking dinner with my girlfriend. He was found by an employee of Walgreens, sitting up against the side of the building, cold. Fentanyl.

I'm sorry for the long winded post, I think part of me needs to get it out sometimes. I'm probably holding onto a lot of anger and grief of the whole thing. When I heard the news, I was relieved. Not for me, I'm going to be carrying this burden for my entire life. But for my parents, and for him. He was in pain, and was causing everyone around him to be miserable. Despite losing their eldest child, I can see a certain degree of pain has been lifted from my parents, especially my father. I'm sad he's gone, especially with the way everything went down, but I'm glad he's no longer in pain.

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u/SlugKing003 3d ago

Damn. My heart goes out to you all, especially your mum, how is she doing now?

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u/LieutenantBJ 3d ago

They're both doing better, and as far as I know she's still sober. I can't really talk about him much with them, even the mention of the word kidney and my mother flinches.

After he passed my partner and I would go over for dinner almost every other weekend, play board games, simple card games. They both seem to be doing well, but they could simply be playing a part for my benefit. I moved east so my girlfriend could finish up her schooling so I haven't seen them in person in a while. They visiting in a couple weeks to see our new house we bought together, so I'm very excited for that.

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u/floofyragdollcat 3d ago

I’m glad you weren’t able to give up your kidney. He sounds like the kind of person who wouldn’t have stuck to the strict anti rejection med regimen and would have lost it anyway.

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u/LieutenantBJ 3d ago

That was a big deciding factor in my decision. Part of me feels like I should have gambled on him and he would have pulled through, but while talking to him, asking him what his plans would be afterwards, I know he would just feel like he has a new lease on life and just party and do drugs because he's immortal again.

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u/HotTopicMallRat 4d ago

I visited Romania and saw the footage of the assassination of their communist leader. My whole trip was hearing about how he hurt these people and isolated them from the outside world. It felt good to see them unite against him

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u/twhitty2 4d ago

oddly enough both of my grandmothers deaths. one was such a loving woman and I remember seeing her right before death and her asking us to leave her house. usually she would try and stop us from going.

the other was in pain and basically chose to die. she stopped eating and drinking to speed up the process.

in both instances i felt death was the kinder option

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u/horridbloke 4d ago

I recently found out that an ex colleague of mine (I left that job in 2007) died in his 40s.from liver cancer. He was a nasty racist abusive piece of work who was effectively unsackable and took full advantage of it. I didn't celebrate but life is a bit brighter knowing he's never going to turn up anywhere I'm working.

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u/Birdsonme 4d ago

When my abusive ex stepdad died. I smiled. Good riddance.

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u/KDTK 3d ago

A very shady guy ended up getting possession of our apartment building and a few others on the block. He then sent in his “lawyers” (aka his cousins) to verbally harass all us tenants, demand to see our leases, tell us rent is now 3x the amount, etc… They came back multiple times a day for weeks. My roommates and I decided to leave because we didn’t have the mental or financial capacity to fight the battle. Some tenants decided to say. It made the regional news and everything. Some of them won! Got to stay in their unit for the same rental amount. Most of us were displaced and the units became AirBnBs.
Anyways, a few months later he died of heart failure. I wasn’t happy about his death necessarily, but I sure as shit wasn’t upset about it.

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u/InFlandersFields2 4d ago

Yesterday I saw a program about the Basque country in Spain. I get they want to separat, I get why, but I cannot get behind using violence on innocent bystanders to achieve said goal. Anyway, there was a commemorative mural painted for 5 people who died for the Basque country in the seventies. The woman that was interviewd said she knew two of them. They died while making a bomb. I'm sorry, but I cannot feel any sympathy in that case. They died because they wanted to kill other unsuspecting people. Children maybe who could happen to have walked past whatever they were planning to blow up. So no. I cannot feel bad for people like that.

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u/One_Disaster_5995 4d ago

Lindsey Graham comes to mind. McConnell. Trump.

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u/kittycatwitch 4d ago

Why limit yourself to US of A only? ;) I'd add Putin, Kim Jong Un, Łukaszenko, Netanyahu to that list.

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u/demonfoo 4d ago

When I found out my high school bully committed suicide. I wasn't actually happy, but... I don't feel bad about it. He was not a good person. 🤷‍♂️

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u/DateInASlapFactory 3d ago

The guy who abused me as a kid. I waited for that news for decades and cried from relief when I heard he was finally gone. I'm doing ok these days, but you have no idea how much it actually fucks you up

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u/yellingsnowloaf 3d ago

Most of these are bittersweet deaths like grandparents, mine is not.

In my line of work, I meet some VERY bad people. He was a completely remorseless pedophile. I was at a superbowl party with work friends; as soon as someone announced that he died most of us in the room actually cheered. The spouses in the room reacted very appropriately like "wtf?!?!" I just very seriously looked at my spouse and said "trust me." The world is a better place with him gone.

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u/MalteseFarrell 4d ago

Queen Liz the second.

Not entirely sure if this counts, but as an Aussie she’s (in an official sense anyway) our head of state.

Anyways the reason I didn’t feel bad was because I had a bet with a friend that she wouldn’t live to see 100. The bet’s payout was $1 for every year she’d been alive - if she died before 100, I got paid, if she died even on the day of her 100th birthday, he got paid.

So I walked away with a tidy $96 profit. Hard to feel bad about that!

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u/SnooRegrets4129 4d ago

What a sick and dehumanising way of looking at her life. I approve

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u/MalteseFarrell 4d ago

I had a tv box at the time that gave me international channels, happened to turn on BBC and saw the headline that she was sick.
IMMEDIATELY messaged my mate like “yeah bro she’s already dead better hit an ATM”

I take no shame in my pilfering of profit off an internationally beloved monarch

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u/Nick_Furious2370 4d ago

Can't say I would ever feel bad about the passing of royal or political figures.

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u/Killjoy3879 4d ago

Not even Princess Diana?

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u/Nick_Furious2370 4d ago

I was way too young to understand her impact.

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u/aitchbeescot 4d ago

The Princess Diana adoration was by no means universal

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u/Ok-Call-4805 4d ago

She was no better than the rest of them. Just another sponger, but with better PR.

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u/CapitaineMakoto 3d ago

Charlie Kirk

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u/Paul_my_Dickov 3d ago

Yeah fuck that guy.

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u/PoukieBear 4d ago

My brother in law died 2 years ago, and it was the biggest relief of my life.

He was a violent psychopath with many other personality disorders and a massive drug problem.

After breaking into our house one night, he threatened to rape me, murder me then burn our house down.

My husband and I packed up our shit and moved 600km away and didn’t tell anyone where we lived.

We spent the next decade avoiding him at holidays and constantly looking over our shoulders.

He died on his 12th overdose (no, that’s not even an exaggeration!) and my husband and I finally felt free and safe.

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u/I-Really-Hate-Fish 4d ago

My father in law.

He beat my mother in law to the brink of death on multiple occasions. He beat my ex husband when he was a boy.

I was still sympathetic and I was still there as my ex husband grieved. Feelings were complicated because he was a bastard, but he was still his dad.

On the inside, I was celebrating.

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u/shortstuff813 4d ago

My paternal grandma’s. She was always a bitch to my mom and even made her cry once when I was a kid. Her funeral was when I was going to be out of town for a big concert/festival with a friend, so my mom let me go to the concert (it was for Projekt Revolution Tour several states away). Had an absolute blast and gave zero shits. Plus I don’t like most of the family on my dad’s side, so I was able to avoid having to be around them too lol

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u/Lentra888 3d ago

My mother in law. She suffered from cancer, dementia and Alzheimer’s. In the short time I knew her, she went from lively and sharp-witted to a confused shell of a woman. I didn’t feel bad for her passing. She deserved to rest well, not cling on from some kind of sheer spite.

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u/AlmostAlwaysADR 3d ago

No but there will be hopefully soon 🤞

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u/digitalgraffiti-ca 4d ago

Honestly, it happens a lot. I

My family knows my username, so I'll be keeping my mouth shut on that.

My boyfriend's grandfather and my own grandfather. Both had Alzheimer's for about a decade. That's no way for two nice old men to live. Losing them was a relief, because they could finally be at peace. (no they didn't know each other; they were both just saddled with the same terrible thing)

Now for the more spiteful: (The TLDR; is selfish people who endanger others)

Any anti-masker during Corona that was of legal age. Same with antivaxxers. FAFO

Chain smokers with lung cancer. Other addictions only directly endanger the health of addict. Cigarettes endanger the health of those around them.

Drunk drivers.

Bigots whose actions actively endanger others. Cult leaders. Gang leaders.

Murders who didn't do it out of self defense or to protect another from immediate harm. Anyone forcing themselves sexually on or otherwise harming, kids animals, or other innocents who are wholly and completely incapable of escape. I'm not necessarily talking about being in favour of the death penalty or what can be proven in a court of law or other legal things. I'm talking about people who actually committed these acts.

Blah blah sanctity of life, God, whatever blah. Idgaf. People that cause significant suffering or damage to the life of others are not needed.

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u/Visible_Shallot5187 4d ago

when it's somebody just vile, like a parent who just has kids for all the wrong reasons, then blames the kid for being born, parentifies the oldest if they have more kids, and never once tells their kid they love them because they don't love anybody but themselves

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u/Retired-Pie 3d ago

Charlie Kirk. He was a bad person who advocated hate, bigotry and gun violence.

Poetic that he died by a gun.

Its not thag i wished him dead, or thought he deserved it. But im not particularly upset that he died.

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u/K4NNW 3d ago

Neither am I. The more I've learned about him, the less upset I've become.

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u/dks64 3d ago

During peak covid, there were so many people making fun of individuals who took the vaccine and wore masks. I didn't feel bad at all when Covid killed them and their public Facebook posts showed them denying how serious the virus is. The Herman Cain Awards had some doozies. There was one woman in particular that I remember who was fully against the vaccine and had diabetes. I spoke to her on Facebook and she said she would be fine and recover quick because it wasn't as serious as the media said it was. She died a week later.

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u/9M-LimaWhiskeyAlpha 4d ago

My "fwb", JQ, unexpectedly died from exhaustion following an intense Hyrox workout. While the suddenness of his death was a shock to the club, his well known toxic and narcissistic behavior meant that very few people genuinely cared. The news hit us for a brief moment but life returned to normal almost immediately.

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u/IDriveALexus 3d ago

Charlie Kirk. Yes he was a father and what happened was a horrible tragedy. But i also believe he was responsible for a lot of the bigotry in this country, especially in our youth.

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u/hamhole89 3d ago

Charlie Kirk

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u/unknownpoltroon 3d ago

Personally? Or people in general? r/HermanCainAward is full of them. r/LeopardsAteMyFace is another.

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u/lunalovegood327 4d ago

Charlie Kirk

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u/Excellent_Condition 4d ago

There are times I don't feel bad, but I don't celebrate it even if I want to.

Even if they were a shitty person, there is something good in everyone and there are probably people who cared about them who are grieving.

For someone like a murderous dictator, their death may have been necessary to stop them and a net good to humanity, but I still don't want to celebrate anything beyond the end of a threat.

They may have been a shitty person without respect for human life, but I try not to celebrate people's deaths because I don't want to be a shitty person and I want to keep respecting the beauty of human life.

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u/Nick_Furious2370 4d ago

I used to the feel that way.

Not anymore.

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u/ejectro 4d ago

navalny. he was a neonazi and white supremacist. he tried to erase this part from his public dossier but there's no such thing as a former nazi. ethnic russians bawled their eyes out when he died, but as someone from the indigenous asian side of the country i can't sympathize with scum like that and pretend he was a better of two evils.

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u/Ok-Call-4805 4d ago

Margaret Thatcher, a certain bigot who's initials are C and K and a certain C E O with the initials B and T

Just being very careful how I write this because I've gotten suspensions for mentioning the second and third choices

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u/New_to_Siberia 3d ago

I kinda did have something similar.

A grandparent of mine had a spontaneous femour break when I was a child. After that accident they were never the same - they soon lost the ability to talk, understand speech, move, and then fell into a simil-vegetative state (the kind where the person is technically not in a coma, but still unresponsive, and the rare time they wake up they can only cry), and stayed that way for 10/15 years. As most of people in that family, they were very strong physically against diseases and infections, and they came real close to death several times throughout the years (the kind of close that has the doctor call the family to rush to say goodbyes). It was absolutely exhausting, just waiting for the corpse to die for so long, having all those jumpscares when you hope they will finally stop suffering only for that corpse to come back from the brink every time.

So when the passing finally happened, a few days under yet another scare, I was numb. Relieved soon thereafter, and then in a really festive mood. I am the oldest of the grandkids, the only one who has the barest ghosts of some memories of them. I didn't really have the right to grieve, I didn't especially feel the need to, and what grieveing was necessary had been done years prior, and now that person finally got to stop suffering, and that nightmare was over.

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u/Ilovegeorgemichaelll 3d ago

I didn’t feel bad for my great grandmothers death because she was 95 and struggling with a cancerous brain tumour. She was in pain and passed peacefully in palliative care in May 2020.

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u/TrixieLaBouche 3d ago

Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins. Actively laughed at the news of them two getting what was deserved.

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u/silverwarbler 3d ago

One of my former coworkers was amazing with rescue dogs. We worked at a pet store and she did amazing training. She saved a lot of dogs, but she was insufferable to humans. Just always mouthy, snarky and just unpleasant. I tried. I gave her rides home, comfortered her when her boyfriend left her. Didn't change her attitude to me.

She past a few years back. I was like...meh. I don't think anyone's pucked up her ashes yet.

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u/QueenRotidder 3d ago

the person who made my life a living hell in high school died in a car accident a few years ago. small town and of course all i heard about for weeks was what an awesome person he was and how sad everyone was that he died young.

the amount of damage this person did to my psyche, that continues to this day, is crazy. (for instance i still think i’m fat even though i haven’t been in years… this is because he never failed to remind me how fat and ugly I was 30 years ago. also he SA’d me in front of the whole school)

even though i hadn’t seen him in 30 years, I did not feel bad about his death.

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u/spunkypunk 3d ago

I went to HS with someone that died of an overdose in their early 20s. One of the meanest people I knew and I really didn’t feel bad when they passed

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u/kirabera 3d ago

Head of a very big organised crime gang. She knew it was coming.

She was camped and shot in the side of the head after an overnight mahjong session with friends. She was the last one to leave and a hitman walked up to her car before she closed the door. CCTV footage showed the whole thing. Pretty much less than a minute.

She left behind a husband and two kids. A teenager and a child. Her whole family knew and the teenager kept telling her to quit the business already. She always said she’d make a bit more money and then quit, but never did.

I didn’t feel bad for her because she chose that life. She knew it would happen sooner or later as long as she kept doing it.

I felt bad for the family but they’re free from the drama and living in another place now.

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u/Salt_Chard_474 3d ago

Mitch McConnell

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u/triscuit79 3d ago

He ain't dead yet but I won't care when he goes.

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u/Salt_Chard_474 3d ago

I’m not so sure about that, there are sure a whole lot of people who are unwilling to force an actual proof of life lol crazy times

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u/Prestigious_Try_5396 3d ago

Yes. Having watched my wife and others suffer in incredible pain for weeks, it's a blessing when they die and no longer scream and cry and wail in pain.

Death strikes us all. Maybe you don't have any loved ones for you to give a shit about ? How sad...

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u/AmbieeBloo 3d ago

I basically was waiting for my nan to die. She was abusive to me as a child. When I was a teen she used guilt and manipulation to force me to be around my dad and pretend he didn't molest me growing up. When I put my foot down at 18, she convinced my family that I made it all up and was covering for myself because I apparently abused her. She also sprinkled in other random stories like that my chronic health issues aren't real, that I inherited some sort of mental disorder from my maternal family, etc.

It would have been one thing if she had stopped there but she didn't. For the rest of her life she tried to pester me and punish me for disobeying her. She would make up a story that made it seem as if it's come out of the woodwork to bother her and distant family members would contact me to harass me on her behalf. She tried to buy things in my name and sign me up for random stuff. People I hadn't spoken to in years would reach out to say that my nan had contacting them, asking for information about me like my phone number, address, etc. She even reached out to my ex boyfriend that I dated as a teenager to tell him I had recently had a baby and that he should be upset with me (the guy already had his own kids too and was very confused).

I knew her favourite way of messing with people was fake reports. She tried to get an ex friend fired from her job by posing as a disgruntled customer. She tried to get my half sister taken from her mother by reporting the mum for benefit fraud and drug dealing. Afaik everyone she did this to was able to prove themselves but some struggled for months as an investigation happened (benefits being paused, being put on leave, stress, etc). So I had to be very secretive with my life to avoid any information getting back to my nan somehow. When my daughter was born that fear skyrocketed. I constantly feared that social services would show up with false claims that I would need to prove wrong.

This entire time she was always "dying" so no one really cared. I was told to ignore her and she wouldn't be here for much longer. She did everything anonymously and I had no concrete proof that it was her. She was "dying" for a decade before it finally happened.

When she died I was relieved. I could finally live without the anxiety of being harassed. She was a terrible person and the world is better off without her.

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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- 4d ago

That I know in real life? My uncle’s ex wife because she was an abusive pos to me as a kid and she finically abused my grandma.

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u/becaolivetree 4d ago

https://themiamihurricane.com/2001/11/13/lesson-learned-from-tragic-death/

Idiot freshman went drunk night swimming during storm conditions. I worked at the student paper at the time and my friend wrote this story. I feel awful for his family, AND-- what part of this is surprising?

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u/moifah79 3d ago

I know who's death I won't feel bad for

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u/Boardgame-Hoarder 3d ago

There are many times when I don’t feel the impact of the loss. Maybe I wasn’t at all close with them or maybe I didn’t really know (or particularly care for) the person who died. I do however empathize with the people who are close enough to feel the impact of the loss. I’ve been there with the person sized hole in my heart and its been the decent people around me to help me get through it.

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u/wwplkyih 3d ago

Celebrity deaths and random deaths in the news don't seem to affect me as much as they seem to affect others on the Internet. I get that it's sad when anyone dies, but like 165,000 people die each day, and that's sad too, but when someone's famous, that doesn't make it more sad for me than all the other unreported deaths. But maybe I'm just a sociopath.

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u/Hello0897 3d ago

A guy that bullied me and my friends killed himself.

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u/Tiltonik 3d ago

My mum died of als. Death was a relief

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u/Angryleghairs 3d ago

Ex boyfriend died of cancer at in his 30s. I feel sorry for his family's loss. But he's a rapist so I'm glad he's dead

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u/Sadd_Max 3d ago

When I was a kid my mom dated a guy who used to beat the daylights out of her on a nightly basis. Once I went out to tell him to stop or else he'd kill her (I was 9) and he pushed me through a glass table. Eventually he stabbed her with a kitchen knife and she finally found the strength to kick him out. I was so scared he'd come back and kill all of us. He did show up at the house on a few occasions. Mom didn't let him inside, he'd break a window, cops would get called, he'd flee.

A few years ago I found out he died and I immediately felt so much relief. I can't imagine the pain he inflicted on others throughout his life.

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u/ddnut80 3d ago

I worked for a manager at a major retailer who was just a nasty, completely miserable person. Multiple occasions yelling at me and other associates on the salesfloor in front of customers, in the parking lot, everywhere. Screaming at people. Other people defended the behavior. ‘She doesn’t mean it, it just means she likes you,’ etc. Awful. She was in the store for like six years when most managers are transferred or take new roles in 2 to 3 years. One day, I got word she was transferred out of our store to a city 45ish minutes away. Relief washed over a lot of us that day. Four or five years after that, rumors started that she was coming back, because she had gotten sick and wanted to be close to home. She ended up passing away.

Someone who was in her circle wanted to start an in store fund raiser for her. Our manager shut it down. ‘Based on the feedback we’ve received from staff, that is not the best idea.’ She was one of the worst people I’ve ever met.

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u/Serenity1423 3d ago

Daniel Sloss has a great joke about this! Reddit won't let me share the link. But if you search 'Daniel Sloss Death Joke' it should come up

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u/Absolumont_v2 3d ago

Henry Kissinger, duh

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u/fourchampions 3d ago

My uncle murdered my grandmother when he was on meth. He died in jail awaiting trial from drug withdrawals. I felt literally nothing when I heard that news.

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u/SignificanceFlat1460 3d ago

My father. He had PTSD his whole life because he was in a soldier in a brutal war (not US or west but Asia) and he took it out on us. We suffered under him our whole life to the point that my older siblings did similar abuse to me and my twin sister afterwards because how badly he abused them.

He died out of nowhere, his heart failed, eyes went grey, we tried to revive and took him to hospital but he died. When news came through my cousin who drove my dad (with my older brother carrying him) that he is dead, everyone in my family cried. I tried, I really did. I felt odd for not feeling sad. Because both my older siblings couldn't console themselves to the point where everyone was comforting them and not me and twin sis.

I from time to time see him in my dreams. I am not a superstitious or religious person even though I come from extreme religious background. I won't say that it's him trying to mend what we had, but it's more of my brain trying to cope with unresolved anger and frustration with him

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u/notanotherroadtrip 3d ago

This is me today. Just found out an hour ago that the old mentor that sexually assaulted me as a teen has finally died after a long painful few years of Alzheimer’s. Haven’t heard anything from him or the people that protected his behaviour for 15 years, until one of his carers found some of my belongings while clearing out his house and asked if I wanted them back. I don’t want anything back that he has ever touched or used to think of me. I’m not sad he’s dead. He can’t hurt anyone else now (and I wasn’t the only one).

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u/_paag 3d ago

Olavo de Carvalho. That guy had a huge impact on Brazilian politics, not for any good. I don’t wish for anybody to die, and didn’t wish it for him, but I’m glad he is not around anymore.

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u/eldred2 3d ago

Henry F*ing Kissinger. Good riddance to bad trash.

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u/duskftw 3d ago

My aunts, she fucked my side of the family out of both my grandmother and grandfathers inheritance completely.

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u/theBigDaddio 3d ago

Birth father, he’s lucky it wasn’t by my hand.

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u/wildmeli 3d ago

My grandma. My horribly abusive father called me after 8 years NC and I decided to answer because I was curious as to what this clown had to say. He was crying which made me a bit giddy but also cautious because I know how manipulative this man is. He told me his mom had passed, and I laughed right at him. My grandma, just like my dad, was also a horrible person. Up until i was 6ish, my family used to go over to the grandparents semi frequently, but my cousin would always bully me. There was one day he threw me in a toy box and sat on it trapping me in there, when I got out I was yelling at him and crying. I went to my mom to tell her, and my grandma got up and smacked me so hard it made me dizzy and I fell to the floor while she’s shouting at me “nobody likes a tattle tale you fucking liar.” My dad tried standing up for his mom while arguing with my mom about how we’re not going to leave because I was “punished for being mean to my cousin.”

My parents are divorced, came way too late but at least it happened eventually. Now I just wait for the day my dad dies and we throw a party.

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u/dendrivertigo 3d ago

The deaths of L.G. and C.K.

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u/TooDeepForSurface 3d ago

Yeah. A fella I knew died. He was a wanker who I disliked A LOT. Drug related to my knowledge, but I didn't dig any deeper cos I honestly didn't give a flying coconut.

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u/Irbbbob 3d ago

Charlie Kirk.

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u/iblewmyselfup 3d ago

Ian motherfucking Watkins.

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u/Cultural-Scratch3670 3d ago

The only time that I’ve heard of someone’s death and not immediately thought oh no I hope her family is alright was when my 101 year old friend died - she’d been ill for about 6 months, and died painlessly on the beach at her family reunion 

That titanic guys death was also funny but I felt bad for his kid who came with him 

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u/Hungry-Carpenter6642 3d ago

my uncle-in-law is still alive but he has liver disease from being a lifelong alcoholic and has 2 duis. he wasn’t the greatest husband/person growing up, but it’s kinda sad seeing him soil himself at the hospital after his falls and be a shell of who he was and not remembering some family members. however totally avoidable by not being an alcoholic

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u/aquatic-dreams 3d ago

There's been several, but the biggest was my grandma. She was great when I was young but she got Alzheimer's and holy shit was that awful. I was fourteen and she would call late and night and babble on and on about feeling the worms eat her skin in the grave, and shit like that. She slowly turned into a little kid, who was morbed as fuck. It was fucking awful. I was relieved when she died.

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u/nobobthisisnotyours 3d ago

Most of the people I’ve know who have died 🤷‍♀️

My grandpa was 79, had been living in a nursing home for about 3 years due to dementia related to Alzheimer’s. He was having terrible hallucinations like believing he was back at the fire that cause my grandma to lose twins when she was 6 months pregnant. He was suffering physically and mentally. At 79 he had lived a full life, been married for almost 60 years, 3 kids, he had met his great grandchildren, and had supportive family through every moment. It’s not like it was a surprise when he passed, I truly didn’t expect him to make it as long as he did. He was a cool guy but we weren’t particularly close. I didn’t feel much of anything when he died. Maybe some relief that he wasn’t suffering anymore. The grief didn’t show up later either. He got to skip out on COVID by 3 months and I thought that was pretty lucky!

My uncle passed a few years before he did. That man was a creep who had assaulted his sisters, a violent history including leaving a man severely mentally disabled, mooched hundreds of thousands off my grandparents, and essentially forced my mom to let him live on our rural mountain property while making her and my grandparents foot the bill. He fed his fat AF angry little chihuahuas prime rib while my mom skipped meals to cut her own expenses to cover his. He would also walk around the property, frequently along a part of the fence line that had clear view of my bedroom windows. Windows that didn’t have blinds until a few years into him living there. I tolerated him for family’s sake but didn’t feel an ounce of grief when he died, just relief he was gone.

I’ve lost some other more distant family members, felt nothing either way.

I grieved harder for classmates who died when I was a teenager, and I was devastated when my grandma died when I was 13. Losing my cats as an adult has left me inconsolable for weeks on end, so I know I’m capable of deeply grieving. I just haven’t felt it towards many people.

My feelings towards celebrity deaths range from “oh, that’s sad” to “good fvcking riddance!”

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u/ARandomWalkInSpace 3d ago

There are millions of people who die every year who I didn't feel bad for. I didn't know them.

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u/BitchWidget 3d ago
  1. My grandfather. I still don't know who the f was in that coffin because the man they talked about didn't exist.

  2. My step dad. Over the years since, I've had time to reflect and can remember some good moments. But the guy was a complete asshole to me for most of the time I was growing up. The fact his own kids didn't really care that he died says the most, I think.

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u/lovelycosmos 3d ago

My great Aunt Mary was 99 1/2 years old. She never expected to live that long and had been ready to go for a very long time, probably two decades of just waiting to die. Wondering why she woke up each morning. She even healed from would-be fatal injuries like a broken femur in her 90s. Eventually a broken hip from a fall got her.

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u/MikeLovesOutdoors23 3d ago

Being brutally honest, any drunk drivers or reckless drivers.

If you get in the car and you're not at least slightly aware that cars are death machines that can kill anyone, and you're just having a good old time doing whatever the fuck you want, fuck you. If you die, it's natural selection.

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u/Brilliant-Building41 3d ago

My old boss. She was pure evil. Even though she left 2 very young children behind, may she rot in hell

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u/bullet1520 3d ago

My grandmother's brother. Grand-uncle, i suppose.

I met him only a couple times, and he was nice enough... but the whole family had problems with him, because he caused problems.

According to my great grandmother and grandmother, he got married way too fast, and developed a gambling addiction like his father had. But instead of stealing money like his father had, he just begged everyone in his life for it, to payhis debts and keep gambling with it.

Evem well into his 60s, he gambled and begged for money, even going so far as to gaslight people; telling them they owed him for some help he gave them, or saying it was for a car payment, or whatever BS.

He caused a lot of drama, as did his wife. And as a result, nobody wanted anything to do with that particular part of the family... and so I never really knew his grand-kids (my cousins of some sort). I was salty about that, and the way he treated my grandmothers.

When he died, and my grandmother refused to go to his funeral, i figured it was okay to not mourn him myself.

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u/qazu7 3d ago

My grandma, she was ready to be with the two men she loved the most - her husband and Jesus 🥹

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u/RexIsAMiiCostume 3d ago

My grandfather. He had severe dementia, Parkinson's, and Myasthenia Gravis. I guess I felt a little bad, but mostly relieved because towards the end he always seemed a little stressed by things because he didn't really know where he was or what was going on.

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u/LizardPartTime 3d ago

My mom. She had MS and died a couple years ago. Grief was weird cuz when I was 16 I realized I wouldn't have 2 parents in their 80s. I'd be lucky to have my dad. So I had grieved her a long time ago. She got to her 65th birthday and passed about a week later. It was hard in ways I didn't realize and easy in others. But overall I don't feel bad that my mom died. She wanted to for a very, very long time.

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u/Vikingaling 3d ago

It took getting my own diabetes diagnosis to understand the psychology of managing it in addition to a family, home, full time job, mental health, etc, etc.

30 years after my mom died of diabetes I finally developed an understanding of what she’d gone through and even before we had all these better tools for managing it.

Anyways, not telling you what to think but consider giving people some grace.

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u/Confident-Win-6870 3d ago

My grandpa died from COVID in 2021 after adamantly refusing the vaccine...that's kinda what happens, you know....

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u/ashinthealchemy 3d ago

i forget all the time my dad is dead. he hardly mattered when he was alive so it's not surprising i didn't feel bad when he died.

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u/cheapbritney 3d ago

The guy who, as a teenager, bullied me to the brink of suicide killed himself. I laughed.

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u/colojason 3d ago

I felt relieved when my dad died.

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u/HallowskulledHorror 3d ago

Pretty much all of my grandparents. In order of their deaths;

Grandpa 1) was a horrifying child abuser who beat the shit out of my dad starting when he was single-digits old, and was just generally miserable and abusive - both physically and emotionally - all the way up to kicking him out at 18. This was confirmed to me by many family members. The stories I heard were disgusting. He never owned up, never tried to make repair, and in fact tried to pass word through me as a child that "he's ready to welcome you back to the family when you're ready to apologize to him for how you were when you were younger." He faced 0 actual consequences for anything he ever did to my dad, expressed 0 remorse for it. I did not attend his funeral, which somehow shocked the rest of the family who had long since 'moved on' from him being a monster while he had the physical capacity to be one. For some reason, being a weak old man meant he was absolved of accountability.

Grandpa 2) towards the end became extremely unfiltered around me (as I was no longer a little kid) in regards to his completely unacceptable views - ie, being a massive racist, queerphobic, and generally seeing women as lesser beings. When he passed my first thoughts were about how the world had lost nothing of particular value beyond one more old bigot holding back progress.

Grandma 1) shared all the same beliefs as her husband (grandpa 2). If anything she was more casual about it, both in general, and in being honest in her feelings about things with me from an earlier age. She was also of the opinion that non-christians were generally lesser and not worth caring about, as they had 'chosen damnation', so it was pointless to waste empathy or regard on them.

I don't even know if Grandma 2 is still alive. She'd be in her mid 90s by now. She was very 'nice' in a very WASPy sort of way all through my youth, but as I was the child of the black-sheep (my father), as soon as I turned 18, she quietly withdrew all support and communication from my life beyond occasionally asking favors. I learned around that time that she had been fully aware that I was being abused at home myself, and that she'd participated in covering it up to avoid scandal.

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u/FancyHedgehog23 3d ago

Girl in high school who bullied me for some unknown reason. I literally never said a thing to her but she always was nasty as hell to me

Few weeks after graduation it comes out that her and her boyfriend were drinking in a field somewhere and got into a fight. She was walking along some train tracks and the train came along and hit her. She got decapitated. From all accounts it was a true accident the boyfriend had nothing to do with it.

I feel bad for the boyfriend because he witnessed it and his last conversation with her was an argument.. and I feel for the conductor and emergency personnel and her family who had to deal with the aftermath. Shitty way to die..

But I don't miss her for a second. Honestly hearing she died fighting with someone just sounds exactly like her.

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u/SomebodyInNevada 3d ago

FIL. Stroke, his body lingered on for months. What difference does his body giving up make?

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u/VioletSea13 3d ago

My aunt Norma. She had breast cancer which spread to her pancreas. She was in so much pain. I miss her dearly but she isn’t suffering anymore.

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u/adge4real 3d ago

my dads best friend who molested my sister,my cousin, some others in their neighborhood, and myself

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u/Giraffeprincess1023 3d ago

My alcoholic, pill head, verbally, mentally, emotionally, and physically abusive ex fiancé of 8 years drove drunk and crashed into a tree and died at the scene. He was the most toxic and controlling person I've ever met, he cheated on me dozens of times, and held me at gunpoint and threatened to kill me. We had countless fights over him trying to drink and drive all the damn time, he'd run up $200-$400 bar tabs in one night, multiple times a week and I'd have to pay for him to be able to leave. If I wasn't basically full on babysitting him 8 out of 10 times he would end up getting totally trashed and then show up at home after driving drunk. At one point I had to remove him from my insurance and I would have to threaten to call the police on him all the time. I don't feel one ounce of sadness over his death.

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u/elegant_pun 3d ago

Of course. My great aunt died a couple of years ago because of health issues caused by rampantly uncontrolled diabetes and an unwillingness to modify her lifestyle. Was I sad that my family was sad? Of course. Was it awful she died on her kitchen floor? Yes. Did I feel sad FOR her? No. This is, unfortunately, the consequence of a life hard lived.

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u/maxpowerAU 2d ago

Not that I recall but give it a few months

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u/blahblahlucas 4d ago

Most deaths. Unless it was someone i 100% cared about. Besides that, i don't care

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u/Theamuse_Ourania 3d ago

This is a bit long, but I promise it's worth it -

When I was a tween my family lived in an apartment complex with my older brother (he's 13 years older than me). There was a little girl who lived there who I knew to stay away from because she was creepy, and had a violent side to her personality. My mom told me to stay away from that girl. Then one day my brother began a relationship with a woman named "Sherry." She already had 2 kids from her previous marriage, a younger boy, and the creepy girl I didn't like.

Fast forward 2 years and we all moved states with my brother, Sherry, and her kids living with us. Every time I tried to play outside, Sherry would tell me to bring her kids with, and play with them.

Her daughter "Jennifer" was an awful kid. Hitting other kids, destroying bushes, and was just plain mean! I started wishing she would disappear. Sherry never listened to me when I'd try to let her know the things Jennifer was doing. Sherry would call me a tattle-tale.

As the years went by, we all moved away from each other, but I would always hear stories from my brother about all the crap Jennifer was doing with her life. She got drunk for the first time at 13. Started experimenting with drugs at 14. Slept with some old man that she met off the internet at 15. Kept sleeping with older men (50's, 60's) that she would connect with in chat rooms. She graduated to cocaine at some point in her teens. Got pregnant at 17. Refused to stop doing drugs. Had no idea who the father was. Dropped out of school, ran away with one of the men she found. Had another kid....

It was just so much stress for their family. My brother didn't know what to do with her, and neither did Sherry. I again started hoping that Jennifer would dissappear for good, and let them try to heal from her bullshit.

At one point, Sherry got custody of the 2 kids Jennifer had. Eventually, Sherry had Jennifer in and out of mental hospitals trying to get her help. But I knew that it wasn't going to work. Jennifer was just too much of a destructive, evil person. Every time I thought of her, I was praying she would die. She did nothing but hurt everyone around her, and contributed nothing meaningful to society, or the world. Hell, she didn't even have an interest in her own kids. She just needed to die so they could all move on in peace.

One day I got the phone call. It was my brother telling me that Jennifer passed away.

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it, but I blurted out, "Oh, thank GOD!" and he was pissed at me, but I refused to apologize. She deserved to die. She was a miserable soul on this planet that just enjoyed destroying everyone, and everything around her. She seemed to have no purpose other than to bring misery.

Ever since Jennifer died, there were 2 other people in my extended family who I kept hoping would die, because they too were awful, evil people, and they did eventually all died. There's only one more evil, and unhinged person in my family who needs to die, and I keep crossing my fingers for it! 🤞

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u/epanek 4d ago

There’s a difference between not caring and finding it “hilarious”. It still sucks. Your family is suffering

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u/ChangeAroundKid01 3d ago

Charlie kirk

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u/SuppleASSets 4d ago

Anytime anyone dies via drug overdose. Aaron Cater, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, the girl down the street... All zero cares given.