Update: On February 3rd, my father, Richard, has passed away as well after spending the last few days in ICU. I don't know if this leaves me responsible for any end of life medical bills of his, but it does now put the responsibility of clearing out their home before the end of this month, as well as everything that had to be done for my mom, a second time. I can't explain how much I didn't want to ask for help once, let alone a SECOND time TWO WEEKS later, but losing both parents in less than a month who both did not have any sort of life insurance doesn't give me many more options. If you already have donated, PLEASE do not donate again. I'll try to reformat the whole message once my brain turns back on.

Early Friday January 16th, my mother, Genise Caruso, unexpectedly passed away. Between my brother and myself, we are struggling to even understand how to handle this, let alone afford cremation, a future memorial service, and other after life costs including rehoming the two cats that my disabled father, Richard, is unable to properly take care of without my mom being around anymore. Attempting to stay mentally competent enough to deal with arrangements for my mother is an unexplainably hard task, compounded by already struggling to process the sudden loss of our cat Bea, which happened less than 24 hours before this, and is also the last thing I had and will speak to my mother about.

My parents are both disabled and unable to work for quite a few years now, barely scraping by on disability, which of course left zero room for savings even as far back as when I lived with them as a child. My mom did not have life insurance, and there has been no real talk of any planning for a situation like this, so the financial burden has come down close to entirely on me. Due to horribly timed circumstances at my job, my income has been spotty to nonexistent, despite still being employed and working. This will be resolved eventually, but until then I have close to zero means of getting the still unknown amount of money this will wind up costing together within such a short timeframe.

If you are in a financial situation to help out, I can not explain how much I would appreciate it. If we had more time I would much rather sell every belonging I have before needing to ask this of my friends, but there just isn't long enough anymore to not ask for help at this point.