My grandfather passed away earlier this week and my grandmother (his wife) passed away late last year.
My aunt has been a right merkin through the whole process. She decided not to call my father (who was staying two minutes walk away) when it became clear my grandfather was dying, she gave away my grandparents' dog to a friend of hers despite my Dad asking if he could take it, and has now begun laying claim to everything in the house before my grandfather is even in the ground.
Once the will is read and the depths of her failings as a human being are shown, I'll be giving her a call and letting her know just how little I think of her and just how much I look forward to not attending her funeral when she inevitably dies of a massive heart-attack.
How somebody could act so selfishly and so callously towards her only brother during a time that should bring the two of them closer together is beyond me.
Kind of reminds me of when my uncle took his own life almost a decade ago now. He had a lot of my mum and grandma's family heirlooms etc in his shed and his partner wouldn't let anyone in our family have any of them, nor give my grandma her son's ashes. You might think the latter isn't so bad since she was his partner, but when you think about the kind of person she is to the type of person my grandma (aka a saint) is it's very sad that looney ended up with them. Suffice to say, she was a fruitloop, and since he died, has been completely cut off by the family.
My mum, grandma and her went down to Sydney to see my uncle's son arrive at Sydney airport after he had been told of the news. After he'd arrived she just f**ked off somewhere, never told anyone where she was going and none of them saw her again until they were back in Newcastle a few days later :crazy:
Some people just go bonkers when a death occurs in the family I guess.
