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When did the concept of your own mortality finally hit you?
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:50 pm
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:50 pm
Spinoff from the Rant where someone mentions being the same age as Wally Pontiff when he passed....
When we are kids we see the old folks die but death is still something abstract. When did the fact that you could be one of them sink in? I remember my freshman year of high school the guy that sat next to me in Biology and mooched off of my notes died in a wreck over Easter break. He offered me a ride home a few days before when we got out for the break but I passed. We weren't close friends or anything, but I still to this day can see him waving bye as he drove off. He was the first person that I knew even remotely close to my age that died, and that shite had me messed up days knowing I was no longer invincible
When we are kids we see the old folks die but death is still something abstract. When did the fact that you could be one of them sink in? I remember my freshman year of high school the guy that sat next to me in Biology and mooched off of my notes died in a wreck over Easter break. He offered me a ride home a few days before when we got out for the break but I passed. We weren't close friends or anything, but I still to this day can see him waving bye as he drove off. He was the first person that I knew even remotely close to my age that died, and that shite had me messed up days knowing I was no longer invincible
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Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:51 pm to MDTiger 13
Dismounting in Afghanistan in the middle of the night.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:52 pm to MDTiger 13
Sometime in high school. I had a few friends die in car crashes.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:55 pm to MDTiger 13
To a certain extent, when a tree fell on me when I was 17 and broke both ankles.
What really did it was 1) seeing a guy my age code in ICU at work
and
2) first autopsy I watched, they pulled a kid out of the bag that was younger than me, still in his clothes and all from the night before. Had been shot once in the head.
Eerie feeling. In both cases.
What really did it was 1) seeing a guy my age code in ICU at work
and
2) first autopsy I watched, they pulled a kid out of the bag that was younger than me, still in his clothes and all from the night before. Had been shot once in the head.
Eerie feeling. In both cases.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:58 pm to MDTiger 13
When you hear of someone your own age dying, and it's not a shock. A surprise, maybe, but not a shock.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:59 pm to MDTiger 13
When I was little, 3,4 years old, I'd get a huge rush like "oh wow, I'm alive." It was kind of strange but a wonderful experience. It was like a pulsating joy feeling.
Recently, after almost dying several times, I know how easy it is for anything to happen.
Recently, after almost dying several times, I know how easy it is for anything to happen.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:00 am to MDTiger 13
A few months back when my best friend growing up was shot and killed leaving a bar. Innocent bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:02 am to tketaco
Similar, first mission was a convoy trip through Fallujah. Night ops and the prayers started sounding through the minerets. I was admittedly shook. Luckily I was trained well enough to not just open up on anything.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:06 am to MDTiger 13
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When did the concept of your own mortality finally hit you?
as soon as i popped out.
lifelong pessimist
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:07 am to MDTiger 13
4 kids from our rival high school died in a wreck coming back from a LSU game when we were in about 9th grade. First time anyone that close to my age died, it rocked everyone in our school. I didn't even know them but it made me realize how easily we can go
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:09 am to MDTiger 13
When I was 8 I watched my brother die in a 4 wheeler accident. I've had the feeling that I'd die before everyone else I love since that day. So far, I'm still here.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:11 am to MDTiger 13
I had classmates pass away and it never really effected me in anyway. I just chalked it up to natural selection. When I first started living on my own I realized it's just me out here. Shitty and really depressing feeling. I was seriously depressed for like 2 months. 
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:12 am to MDTiger 13
idk exactly when
but it weighs on my mind heavily, all too often.
in the end, we won't remember anything we ever did and no one else will either after time. so what's the point?
but it weighs on my mind heavily, all too often.
in the end, we won't remember anything we ever did and no one else will either after time. so what's the point?
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:13 am to MDTiger 13
Friend of mine from high school went to SUNY Maritime in New York. I was a sophomore in college and was sitting on my couch in my house bullshitting with him on facebook about fishing. We made plans to go fishing when he came home over Thanksgiving holidays a few weeks later. I left my place and went to Rotolos. About an hour or so later another friend of mine texted me and asked me if I'd heard about xxx. And I was like what do you mean? And he was like yeah man...he just died. I laughed at him because I'd just finished talking to him not an hour before. Then I realized he was serious.
After xxx finished talking to me on facebook, he went out to change the oil in his car. He drove some really low Acura. He was changing the oil and the jack slipped. Crushed him. That was the first person close to my age that I was really friends with that died, and it really put things into perspective for me. I keep his funeral prayer card in my truck still to this day. It's got an imposed quotation on the back in his handwriting that says "Realize how little you need to be satisfied and at peace" that he wrote when he was like 12 or something. Doesn't seem like much, but when it's attached to something like that, it means something to me. Reminds me pretty often that things are finite.
After xxx finished talking to me on facebook, he went out to change the oil in his car. He drove some really low Acura. He was changing the oil and the jack slipped. Crushed him. That was the first person close to my age that I was really friends with that died, and it really put things into perspective for me. I keep his funeral prayer card in my truck still to this day. It's got an imposed quotation on the back in his handwriting that says "Realize how little you need to be satisfied and at peace" that he wrote when he was like 12 or something. Doesn't seem like much, but when it's attached to something like that, it means something to me. Reminds me pretty often that things are finite.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:20 am to MDTiger 13
I've lived probably 3/4 of my life, but the thought of dying really doesn't cross my mind. I've lost my mother, father, sister and I'm the only one left but it's not something that bothers me. Dying and death is part of life. I enjoy living now, enjoy my family, have a good life and if it ended tonight so be it. I've visited the heavenly realms on more than one occasion and I'm confident in Christ and know there's nothing for me to fear.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:25 am to jimbeam
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in the end, we won't remember anything we ever did and no one else will either after time. so what's the point?
Exactly. I see people die on a regular basis. The more I see it, the more I see parents, kids, spouses break down, the quicker I just move on to my next patient. Some people stay in my mind longer than others, but, 3 days later, no more. Sometimes I feel like life is just one big countdown timer
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:26 am to MDTiger 13
A good friend dying of lung cancer at 22. It's one of those things that you imagine doesn't happen to people so young, but it does. Life is more enjoyable after you realize you can die at any moment
kind of like in the Ed Norton quote in fight club, "this is your life, and it's ending one second at a time"
kind of like in the Ed Norton quote in fight club, "this is your life, and it's ending one second at a time"
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 12:30 am
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:30 am to MDTiger 13
When I was prescribed Lipitor.
and when my dad made the comment to me at a funeral, "Boy--one thing's for sure--we'll never make it outta this life alive."
and when my dad made the comment to me at a funeral, "Boy--one thing's for sure--we'll never make it outta this life alive."
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 12:43 am
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:31 am to MDTiger 13
The first time I saw a dead body.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:35 am to MDTiger 13
One of my good friends from high school died this week. A lot of what if's with family and friends in the past few days. It's rough. 
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