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

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My wife's first husband got drunk, beat her half to death, took off on his bike and got hit by a train.





Is it wrong that my first thought was that his train accident was well deserved? I hate a woman beater just as much as a child abuser.

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I only vaguely knew him, didn't meet her till years later, but he normally wasn't as bad a guy as that story makes him seem. But he died ten minutes later so he never had any opportunity for atonement. Think about the worst thing you've ever done in your life and imagine dying ten minutes later. Twenty one years later the only thing anyone remembers about the guy is the image of his seventeen year old wife at his funeral with her arm in a cast, stitches in her lip, and both eyes swollen shut. I guess he deserved it but its hard to imagine a worse way to go.