Cousin.. Who ?

Kabul, Afghanistan
February 3, 2008 7:53pm CST
I have a good one sadly concerning my cousins. My aunt, their mom passed away last Thursday. Prior to her passing, she was moved from her home to the hospital. She'd been there two days and the cousins never called to tell either my sister or myself.My sister found out after calling my aunts house repeatedly and getting no answer. Then she called the hosptial and they told her our aunt was admitted. Then our aunt was moved to a convalescent home and again, we had no clue. Again my sister made the calls and discovered she'd been moved. Then last Thursday afternoon I deceided to make a run for the convalescent home to visit. When I arrived I was ushered into the admissions office to be told that my aunt had passed away that morning. Neither cousin called to let either my sister or myself know. Then, the funeral is tomorrow and yesterday my sister called very upset as she didn't know what was going on, or when the funeral was due to take place. I knew as I found the obit in the paper. Do I need to say the proverbial word "again" we weren't told a thing.. The straw that broke the camel's back was finding out our cousin called the man who my aunt swore up and down was a thief to tell him when the funeral was... but they couldn't call us at all.. Are we being paranoid or are we being excluded? My sister is distraught over this all. I told her that we just need to make an appearance at the funeral and then be done with it. Has anyone else ever had this sort of thing happen for no reason.. ?
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• Canada
4 Feb 08
I understand why you would be upset by this lack of information, but you have to see it from their point of view. Perhaps they are so overcome by the stress and grief of losing their mother, that talking about it is the last thing they want to do, or perhaps they just don't want to or CAN'T talk about it. I kno it must be hard for them.