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What makes you sad every time you think about it ?

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Imaybeacat · 29/10/2021 20:33

There’s been a lot of sharing story threads so i’d like to start one - to start such a sad one Blush
What story or fact about somebody/something etc makes you sad whenever it crosses your mind ?
For me it’s a late singer named Tiny Tim… I watched a video about him a few days ago and it’s been bloody depressing me . Whenever he pops into my head I have to go take a break and do something distracting!! Poor guy. Sad
Need to feel better. Am I alone in this ?

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EvenRosesHaveThorns · 29/10/2021 22:28

The lives and deaths of the animals we eat

NeverAnyMilk · 29/10/2021 22:29

Richard Carpenter and how many songs he’s probably written we will never hear Karen’s vocals

lollipoprainbow · 29/10/2021 22:29

Dunblane shootings. The innocent little children faces were all over the news. I had a little nephew the same age who had just started school me and my mum cried and cried.

darkn · 29/10/2021 22:29

Global warming, animal suffering, and how little people care for the planet.

Campalumpa · 29/10/2021 22:31

The future we are creating for our children through not addressing climate change

ElvisPresleyHadABaby · 29/10/2021 22:32

My friends 12yo DD being removed from her younger sister's funeral howling and screaming. One of the most ghastly memories I have, her fighting to get towards that tiny coffin where her best friend was.

noblegreenk · 29/10/2021 22:37

The Aberfan disaster. My eyes immediately fill up when I think about it. All those poor little children and how scared they must've been.

Oaktreepinetree · 29/10/2021 22:37

@ElvisPresleyHadABaby SadFlowers that's heart-rending

LowlandLucky · 29/10/2021 22:38

I am physically sick every time i think of David Howes and Derek woods being dragged from their car and kicked to death. I had to watch the video footage and it was truly sickening to know that any human could do that to another.

MargoGru · 29/10/2021 22:38

Valeria and her dad who drowned crossing from Mexico to the US, about 2 years ago now. Close in age to my own girl. Oliver Jeffers book “what we’ll build” is dedicated to them and I think of them every time we choose it from the shelf.

billycorn · 29/10/2021 22:39

Jason swift. A teenage prostitute raped and killed in the 80’s. I remember reading a candid and excruciating detailed account (by someone high up in the RSPCC) of his rape which left an impression to say the least. The sadness and the deprivation of it all left me feeling utterly bereft.

Hollywolly1 · 29/10/2021 22:40

Madeleine mccann
All the terribly sad things that happened to missing children and the parents that never knew what happened them,it must be absolute torture every minute of their lives.
I cannot read those stories because it hurts to much.

NFLBingo · 29/10/2021 22:40

So many of these make me emotional, especially anything involving children, but the last thing that made me cry was lying in bed with DH realising that one day one of us will most likely watch the other one die. I cried for a solid hour after that, and I’m welling up even now.

Blossomandbee · 29/10/2021 22:41

Recently Sarah Everard, I can't stop imagining how she would have felt when she was in his car and realised what was happening.

Baby P, he was the same age as my little boy at the time and my heart broke for him.

James Bulger as others have said.

The phrase: One day you will put your child down and never pick them up again Sad

TheVolturi · 29/10/2021 22:46

@Blue4YOU FlowersFlowersFlowers

Lucythewonderdog · 29/10/2021 22:48

@Blossomandbee

Recently Sarah Everard, I can't stop imagining how she would have felt when she was in his car and realised what was happening.

Baby P, he was the same age as my little boy at the time and my heart broke for him.

James Bulger as others have said.

The phrase: One day you will put your child down and never pick them up again Sad

Me too re Sarah Everard. My husband was driving us to an airport at 2am just after that monster was sentenced and as we drove along the quiet motorway I couldn't stop thinking about her and what was going through her mind.
LagneyandCasey · 29/10/2021 22:48

Titanic 💔

The little lad who was struck by lightening whilst playing football 💔

A lady who had just had twins who threw herself off a motorway bridge in the middle of the night wearing her pyjamas. I think about her and her family often 😔

FreshFancyFrogglette · 29/10/2021 22:48

All of these make me so sad. I'm glad it is not just me who is so deeply affected by these things.
I read an article recently, about a boy who was bullied over his Tony stark costume, that one caught me off guard.

One thing I always dwell on, and cannot get out of my head, was when I was at the pub and some idiot decided to tell a story about his friend killing a hedgehog. I won't go into more detail, because its unnecessary, but the poor thing. I was angry at the time, but t's really stuck with me, and the more I think about it, the more worse I feel about it.

I never used to be this soft. I've gone through some awful things in my life, but hearing anything about animals or kids just breaks me these days.

DarkDarkNight · 29/10/2021 22:49

The Murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes by his dad and step-mother. There is a callousness to the messages they were sending to each other that is just unbearably sad.

His grandparents had reported concerns, he was on the radar of Social Services and it is yet another failure of the system to protect a child.

Blossomandbee · 29/10/2021 22:54

I also remember reading a few years ago a story about a teenage boy in a Russian school. He was being bullied and they had wrapped him up cling film so he couldn't move him arms. He walked into the classroom still wrapped up, teacher didn't help him, then he tripped and fell onto a table crushing his windpipe and suffocated on the floor. There was classroom cctv of it. Absolutely horrific.

lollipoprainbow · 29/10/2021 22:55

My lovely mum ravaged my dementia in her care home. Seeing my lovely sister in the hospice two days before she died of a very aggressive cancer.

OrangeBananaFish · 29/10/2021 22:55

I remember reading a poem once that started "My name is Chris and I am 3" I cried for days after reading that.

MagicalFish · 29/10/2021 22:56

Joyce Vincent. Her body was undiscovered for 2 years. It's just so bloody sad that nobody missed her. I lived close to where she lived, I walked past that building countless times and it haunts me to this day that she was there all that time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent

Iimaginethiswillbefun · 29/10/2021 22:56

The murder of poor little Arthur has made me incandescent with rage.

A friend of mine; her husband left her for someone else, he publicly humiliated her over and over again. Gaslighting her, emotional abuse she turned to booze she left the county, he got custody of their child. I got the impression he was very much enjoying himself at her downfall.

She died last year of cancer after completing rehab for alcohol abuse. It makes me so sad her last few years were so very sad and difficult for her. He doesn’t deserve his happily ever after he really doesn’t.

EvenRosesHaveThorns · 29/10/2021 22:58

Last year, I found a man hanging in my local woods. He was in his 20s, depressed by lockdowns and state of the planet. Can't imagine how his family feel