re: What’s the worst way someone you knew died?

My friend Tod Waggner accidentally hung himself in the shower. They ruled it a suicide, but I wasn't so sure.

My other friend had a girlfriend, Terry Chaney, that was hit by a bus in broad daylight. Just blood everywhere.

One of my teachers at Mt. Abraham had a desktop computer explode, wounding her. Then her kitchen caught on fire and in the ensuing panic, she reached for a towel draped over a block of knives. The knife block fell, and a large chefs knife plunged into her chest cavity. A chair then fell onto the knife, sending it deeper into her torso. The entire house subsequently exploded.

My friend Billy, a class clown type, was decapitated by shrapnel from a car accident that had just occurred on some train tracks just outside of town.

Despite all this, me and two other friends went to Paris to remember our fallen friends. Well, wouldn't you know it, a giant neon restaurant sign fell off a building, and pulverized my friend Carter.