[QUOTE=Giraffe]
I’m so sorry for your loss, Lucy. While I understand your frustration with yourself, I don’t expect many others to share it so I’m moving this to MPSIMS where it can be assured to receive appropriate responses.
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I’m cool with that. (I actually intended to be here, anyway. There are times when it pays to pay attention.)
[QUOTE=Autolycus]
I’m sorry to hear about your friend
What would really burn my bottom is that he wasn’t wearing a helmet. Helmets people!
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Thank you. I appreciate the sentiment.
Not that it’s germane to what you’re saying, but this is one of those incredibly weird and rare cases (let me stress: incredibly weird!! And rare!!!) where a helmet would have done no good what so ever. His massive upper body trauma was not survivable. The handlebar crushed his rib cage, resulting in massive blood loss (first responder supposed his heart was crushed.) His neck was broken at C-2 and the ER doctor believes the spinal cord was severed there as well (awaiting confirmation by autopsy). His back was broken at T-3, T-7 and L-3. It is believed that the somewhat (by comparison) minor head injury would not have been fatal.
Let me stress this once again: This was an incredibly weird and rare case. Wear your helmet. And your body armor.
[QUOTE=Otto]
He knew.
The important people in your life always know.
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I understand what you (and others responding to this thread) are saying, and appreciate the sentiment. I really do. Thank you.
And, it’s an interesting theory you have there. One which, until recently, I must have subscribed to myself - at least on some level.
The problem with theories is that someone always seems to come along and provide evidence to the contrary - a case in point:
My elder (and only surviving) sister was surprised this morning by my call. She was even more surprised to learn why I called. 45 minutes later she said to me, “I never realized that you ever even took notice, let alone cared about [insert imaginative subject too personal and involved to go into here …]”
I could relate two others which would also tend to disprove the idea you espouse. That would make three outta eleven calls I made this morning.
And the calls I made this morning surprised me greatly. I thought I knew how these people felt. I thought they all knew at least most of what I called to tell them. They were surprised. I was surprised.
Assuming someone knows how you feel about them now seems like even more dangerous ground than I recently believed.
Once again, make the call. Please. You may be surprised as well.
To all who roam this thread, I offer a sincere ‘Thank You’ for your thoughts and kind words. However, regarding Klint’s death, I mourn him not at all - just regret not telling him what I thought of him.
As Malacandra intimated, he died doing what he loved to do, with the people he loved and mattered most in his life. All of us should be so lucky.
"Well …, maybe lucky is not exactly the right word … "*
Lucy
*Direct quote from Klint. It was a running joke about life and the nature of fatal accidents that Klint and I shared.
[snerk …]
Guess you had to be there …
