It is wierd when people you know start dieing

[clemson357]

I am 24. I guess when I was a kid or a young adult, people dieing never really seemed real to me. It always seemed like my parent's friends, someone I had met once or twice. I have only had two relatives die, my great grandma and my great uncle.

But now that I am having adult conversations with real adults, people that are between 30 and 60, it seems different. Granted I don't even REALLY know these people, it is not like I spent tons of time with them, but for some reason it just seems more real when someone I have known dies. About a month ago a guy that I had known from job interviews and being a family friend died, he was close to 50 and had a heart attack. He looked reasonably in shape, which is the wierd thing. Then yesterday I found out one of my professors has a degenerative desease and will be completely paralysed in a year and probably has three total years to live. His hair isn't even completely gray yet.

 

[DOMS]

People that are dieing remind everyone else of their mortality. Few people are comfortable with that.

 

[goandykid]

Dust to dust.


Just watch Lion King, they portray it in a nice way.

 

[clemson357]

Its not like I am shaken up or anything. Its just that seeing people that actually seem like people to you die makes you realize that you are going to die.

 

[BoneCrusher]

It's the age you're at. The people around you ... and maybe even you ... have begun to fill in the blanks to meet the law of large numbers. Somewhere someone will die this week from not using jack stands to change out his transmission. It really does happen that some well meaning fool will try to climb down the chimney for Christmas ... historically the family finds him when he begins to stink. Someone else will kick the bucket from prostrate cancer for lacking a simple examination that woulda made death avoidable. It's still raining (it's raining a bit here today) in places around the country ... that means that someone will think he/she can make that low water crossing, but he/she won't. Let us not leave out all the drunks that will kill themselves and/or others as they booze up then cruise out over the coming holidays. Somewhere someone who seems perfectly healthy will suddenly develop a severe headache then keel over to later be brain dead from an aneurism at the young age of 26.

For me it started in my mid teens with a kid in gym class that bought it climbing the ropes to the ceiling. When he hit the ground he did the funky chicken with his eyes rolled back then chilled out and was gone. The coroner???s report said his broken neck was due to the PCP in his blood system. Like I said ... it's the age you're at. Utube is full of videos depicting people filling in those blanks that???re just waiting for a name.

Hey it's great for the economy ... the number crunchers need this.

Somewhere someone is clinging desperately to the hope that you'll fall off your roof while doing your Christmas decorations so that he/she can use your heart. By this time next year someone you may not even like might be seeing the world through your eyes ... literally.

"The world keeps spining 'round ... make the best of what's still around"

 

[Burner02]

I just said good-bye to an aqquaintance of mine. Police officer shot in the line of duty.
I wish I had gotten to know him better...

 

[Yanick]

i've been to two funerals this year

 

[KentDog]

A lot of classmates and acquaintances have gone and passed, as well as friends' parents. 3 people I knew went in the last two months.

 

[clemson357]

Its just wierd. Especially when they are young, or relatively young. A guy in my nieghborhood died in a car wreck when we were in highschool. Another girl I went to highschool with died earlier this year. Its just wierd to think some people last, others don't. Some people live to be 100, some die before they graduate highschool.

 

[BoneCrusher]

Its just wierd. Especially when they are young, or relatively young. A guy in my nieghborhood died in a car wreck when we were in highschool. Another girl I went to highschool with died earlier this year. Its just wierd to think some people last, others don't. Some people live to be 100, some die before they graduate highschool.

Good reason to be an asshole sometimes ... it's normally the assholes that make the count