Yesturday a great and only friend of mine passed away. Only 25 years old. I’ve known her since I was three. We have been through everything together. I don’t know what she died from yet. I do know she died in her sleep. I know she went to heaven. And I hope she went easy. Her name was Chris. She loved everything. And always saw the good in everything. May she rest in peace. (tears of joy for a new life in peace)
I’m sorry to hear of your loss Roshelle. I know my words mightn’t give you comfort but I hope my thoughts do. They’re with you.
Celebrate her life - don’t mourn her death.
Sorry - I didn’t mean to sound so abrupt.
I lost a cousin last month to a tragic accident. He was only 26. Death is rarely welcome in our lives and to see young people and/or our peers taken at such a tender age is often difficult to accept. I know Todd’s passing wasn’t easy.
Cherish the memories and the friendship.
That’s a real shame, Randy. My condolences.
(And to you about your cousin as well, dpr.)
I’m so sorry for both of you for your loss.
I was in a grocery store about 3 years ago. The girl behind the deli counter asked me “Didn’t you go to school at _________ High School?” I said yes, and she asked me if I went to school with “Sue”. I said yes. She told me that she just wanted me to know, in case I cared, that Sue had died a couple of days ago. Now, Sue and I weren’t close in school, but I really liked her in a passing in the hallway kind of way. But we were 31 years old and she died suddenly from some weird “female” problem. The girl in the deli told me the arrangements and I left, trying not to cry. Well, before I got to the check-out, I was in full swing with a really good cry. Damn, I felt stupid checking out with everyone staring at me. But I couldn’t help it. I was crying for everything Sue didn’t get to do. Didn’t get to marry. Didn’t get to have kids. Didn’t get to go to the Great Wall of China or whatever her lifelong goal was. I was crying for all the opportunities that Sue never got to experience. It is so sad to lose someone that young…
my condolences. i just spent a weekend with family because my cousin, 25, passed away this thursday. it was hard for all of us because we were so close, and his only family. He had diabetes, and a heart attack he never felt is what happened. His father found him when he got home, 5 hours after death. The saddest thing is that we knew he was so sick, and no matter what we tried to do for him, he wouldn’t improve his own health habits any, and now i don’t have a cousin my age anymore. we were friends in school when we were little kids, same class until high school. our grandparents came from Germany, great uncle from Israel, family from Roumania, Canada, and across the USA. It was very sad for us. Hard to imagine a life without someone you expected to be a part of your life for a long time. As with all things being impermanent, i understand this of life as well, and it’s for those that sorrounded him i grieve because they need to learn to cope now without him. I hope for you as well that things will ease smoothly, and that you remember all the good things that came from having her in your life.
So sorry to hear your sad news Randy. Take care
The year following my high school graduation, a friend of mine was killed in a housefire. The apartment she was living in wasn’t up to code. I don’t know which hurt more, the fact that I had fallen out of contact with her, the fact that she died a horrible death, the fact that she had been packing as she was planning on moving to New Mexico in two weeks, or the fact that she was 18.
When I was packing to move out of MY parents house a few months later, I found the senior picture she had given me. The inscription on the back talked about how now we were gradutating, we were going to do everything we had talked about, and how we were really going to begin to live life. Cryed my eyes out.
But it helped me put things in perspective, and get off my ass to DO those things we had talked about. Carpe Diem. Best case, we only have 80 years. And, as we all know, there is a likelyhood we have far less. I am sorry for everyone’s losses.