A pushy salesperson rang me shortly after my husband had died. They wanted to talk to him and would take no for an answer, Eventually I said "you can't, he's dead". Stunned silence and they rang off. I don't thing people often use the word "dead" these days, it's all euphemisms.

I had something similar happen not long after my mother died. I called the utility company to get the utilities changed into my name, but since the house title hadn't changed yet they refused to talk to me. So, I grabbed my mother's ashes, her will, and went down to the city office building to talk to them face to face. I rolled my wheelchair up to this ladys desk and politely told her I'd like to change the utilities into my name. Again she refused to talk to me. Ok, I said, and pulled the urn out of my backpack, plunked it on her desk and said, you can try to talk to my mother, but she's not been talking for the last couple of weeks. The lady went white as a sheet, she was a black woman, and finally agreed to talk to me about changing the utilities

At one place I was living, we kept getting junk mail for someone who hadn't lived there for over 10 years. I tried the usual of crossing through the address, and writing 'Return to Sender. Person not known at this address.' It didn't work, we still kept the junk mail. I tried phoning the company and asking for the person to be removed from their database. Didn't work. Eventually, I phone, and said my Grandpa had just died and it was upsetting me to get to still getting the unwanted letters from their company. They took from this that the addressee was my Grandfather - he wasn't, but it got them to stop sending junk mail.

That lady has a twisted sense of humor! I love it!

When Dad died, if someone called asking for the man of the house I would tell them that he left in 1984 and haven't seen him since. If I was ever pushed or someone wanting his current address I would give them the name and address for the cemetery he is Buried in. Sometimes I would tell them to get a Ouija board, but I can guarantee it will work and if it does tell him "Nikki says hi!" and ask when is he coming home. Yeah, Mom taught is to be creative and have fun with that s**t.

Door to door sales people are ruthless. Same with some telesales callers. A woman should NEVER apologize. The AUDACITY this "man" just waltzes up to this woman's private home, bothers her on HER TIME, and makes her feel irrelevant, inferior, unimportant, in HER HOME and she is made to feel like she's doing something wrong by being upset for being evermore reminded her late husband is in ashes in an urn. F**k these people.

my aunt {as i told this story many many times and even this one in other posts} died on July 4th 2024, from cancer and other reasons, but cancer being the most, well when she was "well" {being able to live herself move and cook and everything} she went into the hospital case she was having the same problems her sister that passed in 2022 from {kidny failure and CANCER} and they said they would test her for cancer, they never did the test, yet they gave her chemo like they knew she had it and such and she got bad and passed, well just before i moved 2 months later from the same house {we were caretakers for each other} i got a box for her, we were still working on canceling her mail but this.. was her cancer test.... the one she was supposed to get in February, and if she did it then, it would tell us if she had cancer! {fyi we knew she died from cancer from the place that checked as the dr was waiting for THIS TEST to confirm} I called them up and told them she couldn't do it>>>>>

I lost my husband November 12th, 2023, just a year ago. I only had problems with a few companies. One was Public Storage. We have 2 of the largest units and got behind until his pension kicked in. Got it all caught up (the Mgr was awesome!). But corporate wouldn't let me into our units since they weren't in my name. They wanted a letter from Probate court, but there was no will, so no probate. Fought for 6 months, sent multiple copies of his death certificate, begged, pleaded. Nope. It wasn't until this past June that the manager decided enough was enough and bypassed everything. The other one was Chase Bank, who held loan to our car. They absolutely refused to work with me. That was our only vehicle. Eventually, they managed to get it towed. They wanted the balance to get it back, which I obviously didn't have. They told me it would be auctioned off and I would be liable for the balance. I had 30 days to pay it or they would take me to court. Some guy in finance was hounding me, calling 3-4x a day, sending letters, certified documents, and was basically just a d!ck. I was a wreck, but he screwed up. I tried to call and I got an assistant of some kind. Explained while crying. She loved her voice and said "YOU don't owe them anything. Your name and signature are no where on any of these documents, only your husband's. Since he has passed, they're going to have to eat the loss. Don't let him bully you!" Then raised her voice and said she would give him my message. I had no idea Rick hadn't put my name on the paperwork. And a$$wipe had no idea just how bad he'd messed up. I wrote a long and detailed letter to the company. I let them know everything he had said and done & included copies. Told them I would be posting this letter on every website I could find and sending copies to my local newspaper (Houston ), all the periodicals in town and in state I could find, copying to our 3 major and all the smaller networks (total of 8) asking for help, as well as giving a copy to my lawyers (BFF is a lawyer). All I wanted was for them to refund the 2 $500 payments i had managed to send after being assured by a$$wipe that would keep the car from being repossessed. I sent it certified, return receipt requested. Got a call that day, which I ignored, and another nasty letter the next. Only took 3 days to be contacted by their legal department, apologizing and offering 1 of the payments back with interest. I accepted that as I didn't expect it to work. Was also told a$$wipe would be retrained as intimidation was unacceptable. A week later, I sent that wonderful assistant an anonymous thanks and a small gift card. Because of her honesty, I felt a huge weight lifted at a time when I really needed it 😌

My husband is waiting for a heart transplant right now. If he doesn’t make it, I’ll totally do this. (But of course I’d rather he be there in person.)

About a month after my mum died my dad was still getting calls from creditors and the like for her (of course she hadnt paid her latest bill - she was dead!?). One day I answered the phone and was greeted with the usual spiel of trying to get to talk to her, I said i was her child and could explain the situation. Before I got the chance she starts going on about needing to speak to her about the account and no one else would do, there was no circumstance she would speak to me, then finally said "I *must* speak with Mrs D", so I just said "we'll I hope youve got a ouija board to hand because otherwise you're gonna have issues" - cue a few seconds for it to dawn on her and then the cough/splutter apologies. I said "next time someone tells you they can explain, let them"