Son receives poignant email from father two years after he died to say 'how proud' he is

'Hopefully by now you have adjusted well enough to life without the old man'

The father said he was confident his son was taking good care of his mother (Getty)

A son has received a poignant email from his father two years after he died.

Posting on forum website Reddit, he said he received the email from the FutureMe website, which allows messages to be sent at a certain point ahead in time.

Writing about the email, he said: "He told me how proud he was of me for becoming the rank of chief (border security) and that he loved me.

"Really nice to receive so long after he passed."

The man told the Mail Online the email itself was too personal to share beyond the first couple of paragraphs, but opened with a tone that displayed the father's sense of humour.

He also said he hoped his son had adjusted to life "without the old man".

"Hello Son, I am talking to you from the grave, woooo. I always said I will come back and haunt you," the email says.

"Seriously, by the time you read this, I will have passed on. Hopefully by now you have adjusted well enough to life without the old man and you have managed to help your mother adjust.

"I have complete confidence you will be taking just as good care of her as I did."

The father, who appears to have been ill, then uses the email as an opportunity to pass on words of wisdom which he might not be able to during treatment.

"I have a few thoughts to share with you and a few insights which we never got around to discussing in the last few months where I was still coherent (I'm imagining the morphine will have turned me into a bit of a vegetable. Hopefully I entertained you with some decent hallucinations or jobber jabber)," he writes.

"The first thing I want to say is just how proud I am..."

The rest of the email has been kept private by the Reddit user, who goes by the name of Beersie_McSlurrp.

FutureMe, a website which allows people to postpone an email to themselves, also enables registered users to send a message to someone else.

Its website says that whether the message contains "words of inspiration" or a "swift kick in the pants", an email will always be more accurate than a memory.