Why do you think people never really listen to dying people until after they're dead. ?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Do you have a specific person in mind with this? I guess in a sense we always build up the dead out of respect and because we are taught to say nice things about them and so then maybe we think more about things they said and did that we take for granted before they are gone.

[Asker]

No. I've just noticed this with other people i've known that have passed on. It's not like you're actively ignoring them. But you also don't typically know when the last time you're going to speak to someone. But after they're gone you start connecting the dots of some of the things they said. Like my mother really slowed down in the final 3 years. Before her death. But she was also in her 80's. IMHO she ran circles around most people in thier 80's even when she slowed down. But in hindsight i ask myself why didn't i see the little signs that are now kind of glaring.

[In_Trance]

I don't think that's the case at all