My dad passed away several months ago but he continues to send me email on investment opportunities and various promising designer pharmaceuticals. The latest email linked to a Fox News article about a work at home mum who earns$10,397 per month – PART TIME and how I too could be as successful.

I would have expected death to be a somewhat more peaceful existence but apparently he has found himself employed in the email equivalent of a call centre hawking goods for suspiciously shady companies. Frankly I would prefer something a little more personal or at least informative…after all if you are going to communicate from the great beyond some insight into what we can all look forward to would be welcome (and lucrative based on the books I have seen).

There is a sad irony here that in death I have more communication with my dad then I ever did in life. Of course I realize the emails are coming from bots associated with his email address but I can’t bring myself to complain to Yahoo because every time I get a message from “Peter Cantelon” it makes me smile and think of him.

In this way death has made communicating with Dad easier and far more positive than the few occasions it happened it life. I realize the profoundly sad attribute of this whole post but you must understand – Dad never had any healthy relationships. I don’t think Dad knew how to form a healthy relationship and so getting random messages from him about various “beneficial” products and services I should consider buying is perhaps the most normal my relationship with him has ever been.

There is not really a point to this post except perhaps that despite everything I love my dad and miss his presence on this planet. I wish I had worked harder to connect with him while he was alive because I have come to realize that there is much we could have shared. 

I will go for now, I can hardly wait to see what he sends me next.