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Anyone ever lost someone close to you who was still young and a good person?
Posted on 4/6/15 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 4/6/15 at 9:43 pm
It's easier to deal with when someone who is old passes away. Even if you are extremely close to them (ie: parent/grandparent) and they die unexpectany, you have comfort knowing they lived a good, full life.
But when they die young, they died before their prime, before they even had a chance to tap their potential. They didn't get a chance to travel the world or eat good food. They never felt love. They were taken abruptly, unexpectantly, at no fault of their own. That's the most difficult to deal with.
But when they die young, they died before their prime, before they even had a chance to tap their potential. They didn't get a chance to travel the world or eat good food. They never felt love. They were taken abruptly, unexpectantly, at no fault of their own. That's the most difficult to deal with.
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Posted on 4/6/15 at 9:46 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
It's never easy to deal with the loss of a loved one, young or old
Posted on 4/6/15 at 9:50 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Yep. Good friend committed suicide at 19. Now at 37,I realize everything he is missing out on. We were just kids then. Really sad the older I get
Posted on 4/6/15 at 9:52 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
My brother-in-law died at age 23, only 3 months after he had gotten married. The very idea of it is so unfair that years later it's hard to believe it really happened. He was young, in love, with a great job and a great wife. And in the span of a few weeks he was gone. That day taught me well how cruel the world can be, and how fleeting our lives really are.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 9:58 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
A neighbor of my parents was widowed when she was 23. Her husband was 25 and it was shortly after they married. They had a HUGE wedding and had the reception at their house. Anyway, he was driving and some idiot hit him and pushed his car into a telephone pole. I have no idea if he was wearing a seat belt, but I would bet not. That was about 22 years ago or so. She got married and had kids, but I'm sure she still has those "what if?" days. Sad all around.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:04 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Childhood friend died from faulty diabetes medicine. Family is now suing the company since they recalled it a week after she died. Was at Columbia studying law... Just awful, not even 25
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:07 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Wife's brother was accidentally shot in his own apartment. He was 20 years old.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:10 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
It's even crappy at age thirty or forty, but teenagers dying are truly tragic.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:11 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
A few were lost from 8th grade to freshman year of college. Suicides and freak accidents.
Rough going.
Rough going.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:12 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
My best friend of many years passed away in 2013 at the age of 35 from cancer leaving behind a wife and two kids. We were friends since sixth grade, graduated college together, stood in each other's weddings, talked daily up until a few hours before he passed away, etc.
I picked up my phone this morning to text him about something. The days get easier, but there isn't a single one that passes that I don't think of him, our relationship, his family, etc in some capacity.
I picked up my phone this morning to text him about something. The days get easier, but there isn't a single one that passes that I don't think of him, our relationship, his family, etc in some capacity.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:15 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Define young. My mom died when she was 60 and I was 22. I had taken over her finances and $27,000 of credit card debt just 6 months before and in another 6 months she would have been debt free. She would have been able to travel for the first time in a very long time. She would have not had to constantly think about where the next money would come from or if she could refinance her house one more time or how much she could spoil her 4 grandchildren that she loved dearly, the oldest only 13 and the youngest a baby. She had plenty of living left to do and I was going to have her out of the crushing burden of way too much debt for the first time in decades. It's been 10 years now but I still think what a relief it would have been for her to be debt free and the joy she would have had travelling with her sisters or family. She was taken way too soon.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:15 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
We lost WarharkTiger6 last year...in fact it was a year ago Saturday. He was only 22
incredibly shocked and sad as frick
incredibly shocked and sad as frick
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:18 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Sister was killed by a drunk driver when she was 20 and I was 12
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:18 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
One of my best friends was killed in a car wreck at 23. Was almost 8 years ago and I still think of her at least once a week
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:18 pm to 4LSU2
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My best friend of many years passed away in 2013 at the age of 35 from cancer leaving behind a wife and two kids. We were friends since sixth grade, graduated college together, stood in each other's weddings, talked daily up until a few hours before he passed away, etc.
I picked up my phone this morning to text him about something. The days get easier, but there isn't a single one that passes that I don't think of him, our relationship, his family, etc in some capacity.
I cannot imagine losing my best friend like that who has been my best friend since pre-school. I feel for you. My mom passed 10 years ago but I still to this day still start to dial her work number to tell her about something good that happened to me, then I remember she is gone. I used to hate when that happened, but now I am grateful for it because in that brief moment, she is still alive to me and just a phone call away.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:25 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Yeah my best friend in kindergarten died of a sudden brain tumor.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:26 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
I lost two of my best friends in 2005 and 06. It sucks and it's crazy how long ago that is now. Still think about them all the time.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:26 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Best friend died in a plane crash when he was 38.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:26 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Yeah, a couple of great friends in HS, college, and the Marines. It never gets any easier...
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:27 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Yes my cousin, a beautiful woman, was standing holding her two babies when someone, a dirty motherfricker who never served so much as an hour in jail, walked up behind her and shot her in the back of the head.
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