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I (don't) see dead people
kurandoinu:
Just my grandad on my dads side and my nana on my mums side. Other than that the only other person who died that I knew was one of my mums uncles, and I hadn't seen him for years.
Ixarku:
Both of my mom's parents died within 6 months of each other or so - my grandfather from heart disease, my grandmother in part due to a collapsed lung that occurred during hospital treatment (never got the whole story there). My mother died a few months after, a suicide caused by an overdose of acetaminophen. All of this happened in 1999, when I was 3000 miles away from my family. I left home in ‘98 to try to find a life for myself, only to come back 2 years later to find that everything that had been ‘home’ was gone forever. Took about 5 years before I really started to get over the whole string of events, but some of my family still have a hard time with it.
I've had two co-workers die within the last few years. The first fell through a skylight in his roof while he was inspecting some construction on his house. I knew the guy but not that well; it was still a bit of a shock in the office, as he was liked and was one of those super-knowledgeable guys that people always depended on to resolve critical issues.
The second co-worker was someone I considered a good friend & mentor. He had had 2 heart attacks in prior years, and had made a lot of effort to eat better and control stress. He was jovial with a great sense of humor, smart guy, very well-liked in the office. Then one week he complained of headaches, went into the hospital and it turned out he had a congenital brain tumor that had started growing. He survived the surgery but died a few days later when a blood vessel burst in his brain. It just goes to show that it’s not only what you know about that can kill you.
My dad’s parents are approaching 80, and getting frail and sick, so I expect they don’t have many more years to live, and my dad’s never been in good health, and he’s close to 60, so I’m dreading the day when I get a phone call about something happening to one of them.
mgz:
can really only think of 5 people from highschool that died 4 of them while in highschool 4th someone i knew from highschool that died last week.
1 - a girl that ide gone to school with for like 8 years and known died of cancer - like everyone in the school felt bad about it since everyone watched her slowly die since she kept coming to school until she was on the brink of death.
2/3 - a kid got shot in a violent breaking and entering gone wrong in the face 2 times with a shot gun. (This one was a huge shocker since we live in a real nice area) even more fucked up is the newspaper made up a story about the kid killing himself over a break up with his girlfriend that had just happened. She killed herself as a result, newspaper got sued for millions from both families.
4 - in junior year one of my school friends(someone your friends with but never actually see much outside of school) got himself killed in a car accident. Going about 120mph lost control of his car and hit a telephone pole. The grounding wire for the telephone pole decapitated him and pretty much cut the car most of the way in half. His girlfriend was at a party 3 days later (she was in the car and didnt get hurt at all) and was sporting a big coke habit on the way out of highschool
5 - friend of mine who i havent seen in a couple years and a good friend of my brother died of liver failure at the age of 25 last sunday. Drank himself to death.
temuchin:
all of my grandparents are dead. i only ever knew my grandmother on my mother's side.
she was the greatest.
a few years back my youngest sister got suddenly ill whilst traveling in Africa. she had spent a semester
abroad and was due to return home in a few weeks. send someone off at the airport and they return 6
months later in a casket. broke my heart and my family's as well.
life is a strange thing - its incredible how in literally the span of seconds a person life can be changed.
i think violent deaths and suicides etc. add another element totally.
BrownMasterV:
My grandpa on my dad's is the only person I've actually known who has died.
Sadly religion killed him.
He went on a "pilgrimage" in the mountains on May 26, 2009, and collapsed after taking a shower one early morning. They never examined the body. They never even let my dad see him. They just put his body in a bucket and dropped him into a whirlpool in a river (retarded belief that a death on that mountain is 'special').
We never found out the cause of death.
All my family and I got to see were pictures of his body in the bucket and the priest pushing it into the whirlpool.
Things like this really piss me off.
My grandfather was probably the best man I've ever known. :'(
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