Sudden death of a good neighbor

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Last Sunday my really good neighbor died very suddenly from a ruptured brain aneurysm. We always helped one another and took care of house duties when either of us went on vacation. I bought my house from her sister, which furthered a sense of being connected.

She was just 58, I had chatted with her over the fence just a few hours before she died. She was breathing when the paramedics loaded her into the ambulance and I reassured her 25-year-old son that everything would be alright. It wasn’t – she had to be put on life support at the hospital. The family decided to let her go the next day.

I feel a bit traumatized and it’s sheer sorrow to look over at her flower gardens and realize I’ll never see her puttering outside again. I feel a bit guilty; I know this is a displaced emotion and that even if she had called us when she started feeling really sick we most likely couldn’t have saved her.

Thanks for listening, it helps to write stuff out sometimes.

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I’m sorry for you loss. It’s so sudden it’s shocking, isn’t it? It’s really hard to make sense of the senseless.

I know a man who’s wife left work with a headache, when he got home he found her lying dead on the kitchen floor with two Tylenol in her hand. She also died of a brain aneurism. One minute in seeming perfect health and the next, gone! It took him a long time to get over.

I’m sorry you lost your good friend and neighbour in this shocking fashion! Hope you can find some peace in the days ahead.

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I received news three days ago that a very wonderful person I knew through business had died unexpectedly. Yesterday I heard it was a suspected aneurysm, after complaining of a headache during an earlier meeting.

The sudden death of an apparently healthy person makes it even more difficult in it’s way. My sympathies on your very sad loss.

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My brother died of an aneurysm 15 years ago. Good health, in his mid-forties. We were told he was gone before he hit the floor.

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I’m sorry for your sudden loss. Those are very hard.

May she rest in peace.

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I’m so sorry. That’s how my father died at 43. He had a terrible headache, and went to lie down. He never woke up. It’s very sudden and horrible…

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So sorry you lost your friend!

A great uncle of mine died the same way. He was in his 40s. Got up to answer the phone and collapsed in the middle of the living room floor.

My husband knew a kid in middle school who collapsed and died during gym class for the same reason.

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And people think that worshiping a god called ‘Fate’ is backwards.
hummmm…

Scary as hell, ain’t it?

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Thanks for the replies and sympathy . . . I’m realizing how much I would watch for her car, see the lights go on, and generally just know she was around and about. It leaves a bit of a hole.