Kitsch! posted:

If you're an NPR listener you're probably familiar with the StoryCorps project, where individuals are recorded telling a story from their life (usually to another individual). Some people think they're kind of sappy and not "news" but I make a point to listen to them every week while driving to work.

This week's episode for Mother's Day got me tearing up on my commute: http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182636770/preserving-the-motherhood-advice-and-memories-of-a-mom

Daughter records a StoryCorps session with her mom in 2008 while she's pregnant and mom has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She's now recording a session five years later after her mom has passed away.

I would suggest it to listen to the audio instead of reading the text. I was fine when I was listening until they started singing the lullaby together. Then the tears came (while I was driving too).

These things always effect me because of the audio. The text has only a slight emotional response on me but hearing the mother and daughter conversing and singing together, knowing that the mother is soon to lose all her memories and abilities (and ultimately passed away three years later), just made me lose it.

Arx Monolith posted:

A few months ago I had a fever, the kind that makes things.. different. Cold feels weird, hot feels weird, your own hands on your head or body feel weird. Everything is warm and you feel weak, but everything has this sort of.. niceness to it. I genuinly LIKE having a fever (as long as I'm not SICK-sick)

So I lay down on the couch, put on some family friendly films and enjoy a day of rest (had the day off anyway).

Finding Nemo has one of the saddest scenes in it. In fact, most of the Pixar lineup has terrible tear jerking moments to it, but I can always hold back with the thought "Seriously, dude, don't cry. It's a cartoon." Well, that thought does not occur in the heat of a fever addled brain.

The scene where Marlon finally gets into the dentist's office and Nemo is playing dead in the baggie, and everything things gets slowed down. That part of the scene where Marlon whispers Nemo's name, having seen PROOF, that his son is loving DEAD and this journey was for naught. The fact that Nemo HEARS THIS and stops his ruse a second too late, his hope of being rescued validated at the exact moment his rescuers have decided to give up as they believe their goal is gone.

I cried. I cried as hard as I did when I cried about not being able to go to my grandfather's funeral because I refused to see him that way. I cried for 35 minutes. In a row. I could not stop. The movie ended before I was done crying. I was bawling. I cannot recall a time I ever enjoyed a good cry more (after I was done). It was a sad cry, for sure, I was not streaming tears of joy down my face and I most certainly was not getting enough air into my lungs because I was laughing. I was BROKEN inside by this movie. God drat I love fevers. It's like being high, and my emotions are heightened. Everything is different in a way I want to explain but cannot.

That's my favorite cry. A kid's movie made a 27 year old die inside a little.

Vicissitude posted:

I've been going through Mass Effect 2 and 3 over the last few weeks and some of the character deaths have always hit me. Maybe it's silly, but you do grow attached to the characters, especially in ME2 on their loyalty missions. Mordin, for instance, comes face-to-face with another salarian's brutal experiments to cure the Krogan Genophage. He always staunchly supported his role in the original creation and later modification of the Genophage, but seeing the bodies of the Krogan females who volunteered for such treatment in the slim hopes of curing their race really bothers him. Make sure you take the time to talk to him and go through all the dialogue prompts. It really paints a portrait of a covert operative AND doctor who balances his desire to save lives with the occasional need to take them.

In ME3, he befriends the Krogan female Eve, the lone survivor of the experiments in ME2. With the Reaper attack, the galactic situation is changed. The galaxy needs the Krogan at full strength, and Mordin has determined that the Genophage needs to end once and for all. But when the time comes to do it, the dispersal tower is damaged and falling to pieces. He needs to go up into the collapsing structure to undo his peoples' sabotage and make sure the cure can get out into the atmosphere. He does so without pause. After all, it had to be him. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

The little side vignettes in ME3 are also pretty sad. You can stop by to hear various people talking about what they lost in the Reaper attack. The Batarians were almost wiped out entirely, and you can see one of them talking with a human refugee about places they'll never be able to see again. Another human girl is talking with a turian clerk in the camp about whether or not her parents have arrived yet. The conversations even build on each other and you can hear more about their stories the next time you visit. One particularly sad one is an asari commando suffering PTSD and telling the story of her last mission to a counselor. It's just a real bummer, and the kind of writing that Bioware can do drat well sometimes.

Lee Harvey Oswald posted:

As a dachshund owner, this pretty much wrecked me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJUgJrEgTJk

britishbornandbread posted:

Lord of Laughton posted:

The season 8 finale of Scrubs. It was just so perfect in every way. The way the goodbye JD sign doubled as a projector screen that showed the way JD imagined the rest of his life being, and the camera cutting to him just smiling as he watched. His son and Turk's daughter getting engaged. Getting a genuine hug from Cox... I cried like a baby the whole time.

Probably the best series/season finale I'd ever seen.

50 Foot Ant posted:

When we were drunk and melancholy we'd play Sonora's Death Row and sit there, drunk, in a dark room lit only by a night-light. We'd usually drunkenly sing along to the tune and end up quietly crying.

That or Seven Spanish Angels would tear us up as we sang along with it, usually leaning against one another, so drunk we could barely see, quietly singing it in the dark.

William Barrett Travis posted:

Commandancy of the The Alamo

Bejar, Feby. 24th. 1836

To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World—

Fellow Citizens & compatriots—

I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna — I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man — The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken — I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls — I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch — The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country — Victory or Death.

William Barrett Travis.

Lt. Col. comdt.

P. S. The Lord is on our side — When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn — We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves.

Travis

quote:

Formula One driver David Purley stops mid race to try and save his friend Roger Williamson's life after a bad crash in a 1973 race. The officials have no training and only one fire extinguisher. In the end, they covered the wreck with Williamson dead inside in blankets and continued the race.

Sara T. Biggun posted:

I am 32 years old. My grandparents are all dead. My mother and father are dead.
I don't even understand the concept of "happy tears."

I am jealous of those of you who cry over video games.

DrBouvenstein posted:

Zach Sobiech was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He made a song called "Clouds" about his feelings on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDC97j6lfyc

And here is a "My Last Days" video on his experiences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjKgV65fpo


He passed away yesterday (May 20th.)

Sara T. Biggun posted:

I am 32 years old. My grandparents are all dead. My mother and father are dead.
I don't even understand the concept of "happy tears."

I am jealous of those of you who cry over video games.

eating only apples posted:

Boxer Hockey is a good and funny webcomic, but the series of flashback comics starting here from a few years ago always makes me tear up.

It's worth reading the whole little story, you don't need to know the characters or anything. It's about fifteen short pages.

Cowslips Warren posted:

Mostly when the kid Louis is packing up his things, leaving the orphanage with his new parents, and we see Goob being adopted too. The look of just utter happiness kills me, because that's all it took to change the future for the better.

Edwardian posted:

All of Deep Fried's "Clarissa" comics just crush me. How anyone could see a child as a sexual object, and abuse them just ...ugh.

This ought to take you to the series: http://clarissa.wikia.com/wiki/Clarissa_ruins_Thanksgiving