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That’s always the worst, the sudden out of the blue from something you’ve always considered more or less harmless, loss of a young person.
It’s in the category along with bee stings, something that really shouldn’t have the power to take a life and when it does it is always a shock.
*hugs* I am so sorry you lost a friend this way. Hope you can remember the good times you had together soon.
Kyrin
Sorry for your loss. I too have lost many friends that were young over the years they range from 5 to 30 , all taken too soon 🙁
*hugs* I’m sorry to hear that. A classmate of mine passed away my Junior year of an aortic aneurysm in the middle of basketball tryouts. Gone in an instant. His girlfriend was the closest thing I had to a best friend in school at the time. Eerie thing was he said that day that he wanted to die doing something he loved. Another, younger student died in a car accident the day before too (turns out she was the sister of the guy my cousin Katrina married about 7 years later). Total shocker and the annoying thing was all the news media trying to get in to interview students and we didn’t want to be bothered. Everyone was a wreck for a couple of days. Of course the only ones they ever managed to talk to were the ones who didn’t care for him and never really knew him well either, acting like they did. 👿
I also had a college classmate I worked with in the music department for opera workshop (he had such a gorgeous voice and a heart of gold to match!) died of meningitis while student teaching – only a few weeks away from graduation. He already had a job lined up to teach where he was student teaching. Felt just sort of whoozie with a headache and minor flu like symptoms in the evening, rushed to the hospital by his parents when it got a bit worse a few hours later and he was dead by dawn. 😥 He and my fraternity ‘brother’ were all but engaged. No one knows where he got it from either – no one else around him tested positive for it.
Both so young and with so much to live for suddenly yanked away in an instant. Hang in there *BIG HUGS*
I am sorry for your loss. 🙁 There is nothing like losing a friend when you are young. I lost one of mine my junior year in highschool. He was ditch-banging with his buddies and they rolled the truck. They lived, Randy was in a coma for 6 months before his parents could finally let him go enough to pull the plug. It’s so sad when people die so young. 😥
My best friend lost his dad this weekend. He tried to call me, and I missed his call. Not that young, but 55 isn’t that old either. 😕I’m so sorry for your loss, grayfire. 🙁 Asthma is terrifying stuff. A little bit can be dealt with, but a major attack is something else again. He may not have had his inhaler where he could get to it. Poor guy.
So few of us have had a near-death experience that we get used to thinking that we can handle anything. When something major does happen, even to a friend rather than to oneself, it’s a huge shock. And there are things out there, like asthma, like meningitis, that move so darned fast. At what point do you hit the panic button and go to the hospital? Nobody wants to look like a hypochondriac, but there’s really a fine line between “I’m sick but it’s under control” and “I’m sick and in big trouble”. I don’t know if I could recognize the difference.
Well. I’m going to go hug my hubby, have some gumdrops, and work on something fun. Because it’s the things we enjoy in life that are worth doing more of, while we can.
I’m so sorry! 🙁
I’ve known too many young people who’ve died. The one that probably hit me the hardest was a woman who I used to work with, I saw her two days before she died, she was killed in a drunk driving accident by someone else that I used to be friends with. I just can’t describe how hard that hit me. It was hard to believe that I’d JUST seen her – and that I never would again.
Oh my goodness, I am so sorry for your loss. 😥 It’s so heartbreaking to realize that life can be taken away in an instant. *hugs*
I’m sorry, grayfire 🙁 Losing friends so suddenly is especially heartbreaking. I graduated high school in 2006, and that year we lost one of our most popular classmates. He developed a bad hemorrhage lifting weights and had no idea… just thought he simply didn’t feel well. He died in his sleep that night. It was stunning. Again, I’m very sorry for your loss 🙁
We had a friend killed just before Grad. On Mother’s Day. So I know the ugly feeling about it being the wrong time.
I lost a friend quickly too. He was riding his bicycle to work and was hit by a car passing another car on the shoulder of the road. My friend had a helmet on, but was killed anyway. The driver was going about 50 mph and flipped him over his truck. It was early in the morning, before the sun was truly up. I’m sure he didn’t see him, and I know he felt horrible (it turns out I knew the driver too).
My friend was 26 and the kindest person I had ever met. I guess it’s true that they say the good die young.
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