Hello everyone,
I have split some of the posts in this conversation off into two new topics here and here.
Our community guidelines do ask everyone to be supportive and respectful, and this can include respecting the wishes of others to stay on topic in a thread they have started. Obviously, we understand that conversations do wander naturally, and that’s usually fine. But the original poster in the conversation had specifically asked for people not to do this, and people are now ignoring her stated request for support. There has also been a lot of light-hearted chat, which is not appropriate on a thread where a newly bereaved person is asking for help.
Since there have been such major digressions in topic and tone, it’s better that we separate things out so that everyone can focus more easily on what they want to talk about.
I would ask that any further posts about this subject be kept out of this particular conversation thread.