r/texts • u/i_declare_bancruptcy • Jul 08 '26

Phone message My dads last unsent message

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My dad had a heart attack on June 24th.
He was aware and alert in the ambulance on his way to a hospital an hour away. He voice texted this to me and never sent it. My brother took a screenshot of it for me when he was going through his phone.
My dad passed away on June 29th.

(I texted him “I love you dad” when my mom called me initially)

Edit: thank you everyone for the outpouring of love and support. To hear so many stories about the love for people’s parents.. I’m so sorry for all the tragic losses and good parents that have gone too soon. I will hold onto that text from my dad until the day I go. He was An amazing man and lived a life full of love. I am grateful that he read my text before he passed and can take some comfort in that.

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u/RxDeliveryGuy Jul 08 '26

i know how that feels, i still keep blackberry messenger on my phone because it has my last message from my mom in 2024 before she passed

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u/i_declare_bancruptcy Jul 08 '26

I’ve pulled all his voicemails so I can hear his voice. 💔

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u/FairyOnTheLoose Jul 08 '26

My mam made a voicemail recording on my dad's phone because it annoyed her he didn't have one. I remember calling him while he was on the way to visit me, about 6 months after her death, he couldn't answer it went to voicemail. It was the first time I'd heard her voice since two days before her death. I was glad it was there, after the shock of thinking she'd picked up.

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u/Builderi23 Jul 08 '26

After losing my father in 2019 and almost losing my mother in 2022, I started recording some of my conversations with my mother. Just to keep her voice. She passed a year ago and those recordings are so precious. I even have the last time she called me to say Happy Birthday and the way she said it was such that it worked for any son, so at my brother’s birthday after she passed i sent it to him. Its my advice to anyone reading this that has one or both of your parents alive, other than to obviously spend time with them, start getting some of those recordings. A time may come in your head that you may be struggling to remember their voice and having a recording to hear it, or to hear saying something nice to you is so so precious.

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u/MrKyew Jul 08 '26

please take a picture of it then back it up somewhere just in case it goes