Keep it up dude, you're doing ok.

🙁

Morning all, I just would to let you know that Paul passed away yesterday morning and what is nice is I did spoke to him on Wednesday night.

RIP Paul.

A true and very good mate, I miss you fella.

Thanks again for all the king wirds and support.

Sorry fella.

Hope you're okay.

Sorry to hear,keep strong.

My condolences.

Final part of the story.

The funeral for Paul is tomorrow @ 13.30, I'm not looking forward to it at all.

But at least I get to say goodbye again and wish hi well.

Rochey

take strength from your friendship dude it'll help you through a rough day.

Good luck for tomorrow Rochey.

Urrgh, funerals are awful. Good luck.
x

Hope it goes ok for you tomorrow dude.. Never an easy day to get through..

May you be strong on this sad day,Paul will be watching.

My thoughts will be with you all.

Dress smart and stand tall.

Remember the good times.

Be strong. The memories are forever.

Condolences to his family.

Would encourage his funeral to be used as a celebration of his life – yes, they are not nice, but they are the final send off.

I lost a biking mate a couple of years ago to a cancer, he'd had to stop biking and had got into Subaru cars, so at his funeral about half a dozen cars from the club turned up. It was a noisy send off, but not a sad send off, and pretty colourful.

Yesterday has gone, tomorrow is unknown, today is a gift.

Memories are forever. Good luck tomorrow.

Rochey, I don't know you. I don't know the friend in this thread. I do, however, know cancer. My thoughts and prayers are with you, with your "long term mate" and with the family of your friend, as well as all of their friends and family.

Rest in peace, Paul, rest in peace.

As sofatester said;

Dress smart and stand tall.

Remember the good times.

Let his funeral be a celebration of life, not a mourning of death.

I don't know if music can ever help, but I hope this can;
Nimrod, from the Enigma Variations, by Edward Elgar. Barenboim conducting the CSO

I buried someone I love dearly to this music. Never fails to make me cry, but also it never fails to give me strength.

Stay strong.

Rochey, all the best for tomorrow. Have a good chat with the family, and as everyone has said, focus on the great stuff.

Jesus, reading all this, then listening to flashheart's link has me sitting here with bloody watery eyes and a lump in my throat. phew, emotional thread.

all our love
Kev and family.

Oh dear I had exactly the same experience. My best friend since I was 5. I was his best man at his wedding and godfather to his 2 children. He told me he had pneumonia and it was treatable but it turned out to be non-lymphoma cancer. Took only a month.
We were all devastated.

Strangely the funeral was somewhat surreal as I live abroad and so did many of his friends by then. So we did just talk about the good times.

As people have said above,celebrate the life,not the death.I've even been to funerals were the mourners have applauded when the coffin has gone behind the curtain.What ever happens,make sure look out for his family.And keep strong.