Neal
December 19th, 2012, 16:40
I attended Mr Tim Durell's funeral today. What can I say? I did not speak to him much except once in a blue moon I would say hello if there was no going around it.
After talking to him several times and viewing him out in public I always thought he was very pompus so I avoided him. This week has been very different. A tragedy that should have been, could have been, avoided. He was a very decent human being. Yes, to me pompus but a human being. A human being that if I had known, I would have tried to help. I'm sad, in fact very sad that his brilliant life ended so tragically.
I think funeral's bring out the sadness in people and the thought of our own mortality. We wonder about who is going to show up for us and send us flowers when we go. I thought of the 200+ people that showed up for Tim's send off, the flowers that adorned the funeral area, the love that was shown. There appeared to be lot's and lot's of love. I was sad, vey sad. I don't like funerals and attend as few as possible. They make me cry.
I overheard someone speak that someone was there and that he could not believe that they were there and that it was in very bad taste. I half expected it to be John Booth who has printed some real horrible things but I did not see him and think that it was the boyfriend that drove Mr Tim over the edge. I don't know and as quickly as it was said they moved on to other conversation. Most of the people who were there were all people you would expect with a person who was as respected as Mr Tim was and some were thankfully missing. Some I hear ducked in the night before because they also find funerals sad. Most of the bars were there and boys of his bars were there to pay tribute to a wonderful man.
I am sorry Mr Tim that we were not closer, a person who you could have reached out to. Take care and I hope there is a wonderful place in after-life and that you are now there looking down on all of us and realizing that so many more people cared about you than you know.
RIP
After talking to him several times and viewing him out in public I always thought he was very pompus so I avoided him. This week has been very different. A tragedy that should have been, could have been, avoided. He was a very decent human being. Yes, to me pompus but a human being. A human being that if I had known, I would have tried to help. I'm sad, in fact very sad that his brilliant life ended so tragically.
I think funeral's bring out the sadness in people and the thought of our own mortality. We wonder about who is going to show up for us and send us flowers when we go. I thought of the 200+ people that showed up for Tim's send off, the flowers that adorned the funeral area, the love that was shown. There appeared to be lot's and lot's of love. I was sad, vey sad. I don't like funerals and attend as few as possible. They make me cry.
I overheard someone speak that someone was there and that he could not believe that they were there and that it was in very bad taste. I half expected it to be John Booth who has printed some real horrible things but I did not see him and think that it was the boyfriend that drove Mr Tim over the edge. I don't know and as quickly as it was said they moved on to other conversation. Most of the people who were there were all people you would expect with a person who was as respected as Mr Tim was and some were thankfully missing. Some I hear ducked in the night before because they also find funerals sad. Most of the bars were there and boys of his bars were there to pay tribute to a wonderful man.
I am sorry Mr Tim that we were not closer, a person who you could have reached out to. Take care and I hope there is a wonderful place in after-life and that you are now there looking down on all of us and realizing that so many more people cared about you than you know.
RIP