I lost my brother recently when he was just 20. The thing that saddened me the most was how little photographic and video footage we had of him. We had a video camera almost his entire life and yet we had less than an hour of video footage of him in total and only about a hundred photos. The countless things we could have documented but didn't. I'd love to look back and see and watch his first day at school, his first report card, his first pushbike, and so many other events. I know these photos are mostly just "happy snaps" because we often only capture the happy moments, but when they're gone and you just want to look through your reminders of them, they're all you've got.

I created a website to immortalise my brother's memory and a great deal of the stories and media that's on the site now has been submitted by his friends and stuff that we never would have seen otherwise, and it lets his memory live on the memory of his friends and every year people back to the site on his anniversary and email me little comments and thoughts and it also allows me to update my own little blog of what I've done during the year and things that have made me think of my brother throughout the year. I visit the site every year on his birthday and anniversary or when I am thinking about him, and even reading the stories a million times, they still never get old.

Because of this I encourage you to document as many stories about your wife as you can, and while you may not think the website is such a great idea, one thing it does is let your kids /share/ their mother's memory. It's great for them to be able to relate to your family and the people who knew her, but sometimes you just need to share it with a friend and say "Look, I know you'll never meet her, but here's what I remember about my mother and what I need to share with you". It might be just a little cheesy 10 minute video/audio/image montage, but that's the sort of thing that's easy to share with others, that they can digest and say "That's beautiful, I really feel for your loss after seeing that".

My ex-wife's mother died of cancer when she was just 12, and before she died, she set aside some gifts and special letters to give to her children on special milestones in their life with struct instructions that they not be opened until that day. I know that my wife particularly cherished opening her mum's wedding gift on her wedding day and reading the special message that her mum had written for the occasion. Even having such a letter read out by one of the living descendants can be a beautiful thing. When you daughters get married, how wonderful would it be for them to have you read out a special wedding message from their mum ? This is the sort of stuff that really makes the survivors feel that their loved one is "still with them".

I don't think anyone needs to tell the OP to spend as much quality time as he can with his wife, but if I can say just this - do really special things. Take out a second mortgage on your house if you have to so that you have the money to take some time off work and travel and do wonderful things with your family. Your kids are going to remember those amazing times they spent on holiday with their mum in whatever far flung country takes your fancy. Also if possible, take the extended family along as well. Nothing makes a more memorable christmas than say, spending it with the grandparents and aunts and uncles in Spain or Mexico or wherever. It's not that you need to spend lots of money on your holidays - you just need to do stuff together as a family. I am presuming your wife is still capable of travel if she has a couple of years left. I'm sorry if that's not the case and this suggestion sounds ridiculous because of that.

And to all the people saying you shouldn't remember your final years with her from behind a lens I say bullshit. Sure you don't need to document everything and the daily video blog might be a bit too hard to watch, but I definitely agree with the people who've said to get a trusted third party to do some interviews with her. Get her to relate the most important events in her life on video, but also get the day to day stuff. Get her yelling at the kids, believe it or not, that'll be one of their most treasured memories to them when she's gone. Also, don't forget to document yourself and your kids in the videos as well. They don't just want to see mum, they want to see the times they spent with mum.

What are they doing, not "liking" China's status updates ? Perhaps people are joining groups titled "If a million people join this group, we will overthrow Hu Jintao" Gee China, paranoid much ?

This is absolutely astounding. OK, when I heard we were "investigating" Google I thought "well to me as an IT person, that seems pointless, but I guess it's a moral and legal issue and something should be done to set an example". Had I known that we had absolutely no power whatsoever to penalize them in ANY WAY, I would not have been happy about pissing taxpayer's funds down the drain for the sake of an _apology_ ... on a _blog_ ! I don't know how much we spent on this "investigation", but clearly, every single cent of it was a waste if all we got out of it was an apology on a blog. What was the POINT ? Do we think we scared Google somehow ? Oh yeah, coz that apology letter would have really hurt them to write, wouldn't it ? Goddamn you Labor, stop pissing our money away on bullshit meaningless _stunts_ like this that do no good whatsoever and just waste taxpayer's money. NBN be damned, I'm getting sick of your ineptitude.

Are you trying to tell me that people other than interstate truck or bus drivers are ALLOWED to text while driving ? That's crazy. It should be illegal for everyone, and as pointed out above, reckless driving is already an offense anyway.

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