Raise Funds for my Dads Cremation.

Aim

I am trying to raise funds to be able to afford to get my dad cremated. Along with purchasing a urn, and doing a celebration of life.

I lost a very important person in my life. My Dad. On Wednesday, August 27th, that evening, we got the terrible news that he had passed away. Words just cannot express the feeling of hearing the news of a loved one having passed on. The disbelief, shock, grief, anger, and everything in between. The not knowing exactly what happened, but having a suspicion that you think know what happened. The more I've learned after, about how bad it was for him, and how much he was struggling, but he was just putting on a mask and using anger to hide his despair. Pushing everyone away who could have helped him, everyone who would have WANTED to help him.. Even with all of his faults, I loved him so much. All I ever wanted for him was for him to find his own happiness. To find connections and friends. To find his people. His tribe. To find peace and contentment. And instead he found terrible people online who just pushed him further and further into despair.. People who took advantage of his loneliness and longing to find connections, and twisted it into a vile mockery of the very thing that he was desperately reaching out for.. 

I love you, Dad. I wish that I could have helped you more and done more for you. The regret I feel is immense. The way I would try to change so much if I could turn back the clock.. But I guess that's the way of it, isn't it?? The way we don't clearly SEE what is, until it has already come to be?? The things that we take for granted until they are gone?? The way we for some reason think we have all the time in the world, until we don't?? I suppose it is just the way of human nature, isn't it?? 

So if you haven't already, tell the ones you love that you love them. Check in on that distant relative that you haven't talked to in awhile. Take a minute to hug your loved ones and let them know that you are there for them no matter what. You never know how bad someone is struggling and hiding it from the world. I've had my life saved from the most unlikely of places. From two family members who gave me a place to feel safe and secure, when I was at my lowest and thought I had no where else to turn to. They gave me hope, when I thought I had none left. And it was just chance that they became that for me. So you never know where that ray of light that saves you or someone you love may come from. You just might be that for someone. 

Sorry for the long rant, once I started I just couldn't seem to stop. All of this to say that I lost someone important to me. My Dad. 

RIP Daniel Lowell Babcock    

 11/20/1972 ~ 08/27/2025

I am simply trying to raise funds to be able to follow his wishes of being cremated. So please, I beg of you, help me do this one last thing for my Dad. 

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made