1st off... thank you to all of the lottery post members who have shown their support. As part of this family, it can't be put into words the appreciation we have for your kind words, and donations. It is good to know that there are still good people in this world, and people that know how understand tragedy, and how to respond to it.
As for Euro... If you think it's a scam, report it to somebody. AND PLEASE! Make sure you show them the obituary, I mean she probably made the funeral home website up to, that way she can have everyone go to it, and I'm sure she made up the other people that passed away, and the guest book entries too??? Hmmmmm I'm so sure. If this is a scam, someone PLEASE show me where that would be? I've seen people I love dearly go through more pain this week than I've EVER seen ANYONE go through. I wish it could be a scam so that way it wasn't real. But it's NOT a scam. Like DD said, if you have an issue with something that's been said here, then PLEASE take your bitterness somewhere else. If you had just lost someone close to you, you wouldn't want someone trying to tell you it was a scam would you? Or maybe it's that you've never been through anything in your life. Whatever it is, this is somewhere where we were hoping for support, because we consider people on here our FRIENDS. Maybe they're on the other side of a computer, and maybe we'll never meet and have a drink together, but ALWAYS remember that there's not just characters on a computer screen. There's REAL PEOPLE that sit behind it on the other side, and you need to stop and THINK before you decide to touch your keys to say something that could hurt them. Obviously this is something that you've never done. Sassy is my best friend in the entire world. She's everything to me. I'm with her 24-7, Literally. And she's the REALEST person that I've ever met, and anyone that knows her says the same. She's far from a scammer. You would have been better off keeping your opinion to yourself. After everything else this week, you, and ONLY you just now caused MORE pain to someone that's already been through the worst week of her life. Think about that on your way to sleep tonight.
And James. As much as we appreciate your "passionate plea" for things for us to do to handle the most difficult situation that's ever faced anyone in my family... When it comes down to it, the GIRLS, who are the MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR in this situation, they knew what their mother wanted, and they knew what THEY wanted. The family didn't want Wendy creamated, and neither did the girls. When they have to go on the rest of their lives without their mother, they will have somewhere where they can go and know that she's laying. It's a matter of PREFERENCE. Different things are important to different people. The funds that are being collected are for the funeral, and for taking care of the girls. The most important thing to Wendy was her children. Always. She busted her ass everyday for them, and their needs and desires ALWAYS came before her own. She worked all the time, sometimes more than one job at a time to STAY BROKE. If you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth more power to you, but she didn't have that luxury. Her husband had fetal alcohol syndrome. He's on a fixed income, and couldn't give her anything. She was going to school, working, doing everything in the world to take care of those kids in the here and now. No one anticipates anything like this happening. And 33 year olds don't die of heart attacks everyday. As for their SSI money, that isn't going to go anywhere BUT to the funeral home. When something like this SHOCKS someone's system, there's nothing else to do but what was done. The situation with the burial was handled EXACTLY the way that Wendy, her family, and her children wished it to be. And THAT is the most important thing. This forum post was about LOSS, and need for people's help. Anyone with any kind of manners or feeling would know, people dealing with pain this deep and intense don't need criticism for what they've done, they need support. Advice is welcomed, however, criticism isn't what anyone would need in a time like this. Again, put yourself in the shoes of the people who are actually experiencing the loss, and the pain. If it was you, you wouldn't want criticism, much less with your delivery, maybe even WITH your best intentions, comes across just as Sassy said, cruel and heartless. I don't care if you meant it that way or not. Sit and THINK about not just what you say, but HOW you say it before you type it. I don't think I could wish the pain and torment that I've seen this past week on anyone, but maybe you could use just a taste of it, so maybe YOU would learn how to treat people going through something like this. So keep your criticism's to yourself from now on. You can write whatever you want sure, not disputing that, but think about HOW you say it before you type it. If you really want to help someone going through something like this, you need to be SUPPORTIVE, not DESTRUCTIVE. And what you have been doing and saying has been destructive. And I'm with DD... it is hard to make sense of what you're saying through all the typos, and grammar mistakes.
Again, thank you to all the people who have any sensitivity about a situation like this. We very much appreciate EVERYTHING that you've done and said. We love our FRIENDS here at lottery post.