You know, the past year has not been a good one for a number of my friends and family. On Sunday, a very prominent student on our campus died in a rollover accident. I personally didn't know him... maybe saw him a few times throughout my past two and half years at my school, but I couldn't have pointed him out to you. Now, his face is plastered all over our school newspaper, all over facebook, all over campus. The newspaper even has an article written by him from a week before his death, and he doesn't write for the newspaper normally.
Back in... probably October, I was supposed to go in and work on making up advertisements for a program we were putting on for one of the clubs I'm in, and my friend, the head of the committee, came in and told me she had to go into work for a little bit, and I should just get started while waiting for everyone else to arrive. It was a Thursday. After a few hours, when the advertisements were all completed, she confessed to me that one of her best friends from high school had finally died from cancer. She would be leaving the next morning for her hometown in Alaska to attend the funeral, and wouldn't be back until the following Tuesday.
I've had other friends who have lost cousins and sisters and friends, or have had scares with other family members. All these people I have never met. I remember when I transfered high schools many years ago, one of the stars of the basketball team died on the court from a heart problem. Someone from my university hung themselves a few years ago. Someone else shot his brother and then himself.
It seems almost surreal... I'm by no means close with these people, but I can't help but feel horrible about their deaths. They were all so young, had so much time ahead of them, and many of them would likely have been extremely successful if they had been able to grow up.
I suppose my point is that death can be so sudden, and that we shouldn't waste our lives doing something we don't want to do. Or maybe it's just sad that people so young have to deal with such tragedy. I'm not sure. The events of this week have just made me think... would there be this much unification? Would people even know who I was?
I know how you feel.
One of my students at UoP recently passed away in his young thirties. It makes me so upset.
No, I hardly knew him. He was just a friendly face who I said hello to and validated parking for. But it still breaks my heart.
Oh... and... I'd know who you are (insert hug smiley since there are none up there in that cute little smiley box)
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
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It is sad.
And that's another thing. Some of my best friends, many here on ProU, I typically only chat with online, and if I dropped off the face of the earth, there's probably a number of them that would assume I just got really busy with schoolwork or something. Some on the faculty probably wouldn't think that, since I tend to announce when I'm going away, but with no official announcement...
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I always worry when you guys disappear. If I don't talk to Naomi for a few days, even when I know she's been online I worry about her because I'm so used to talking to her daily. I usually talk to you daily as well, but I don't really ever go without talking to you... save for this week and can I just say I'm going crazy over here?!
It is kind of sad to think about though. I've known people who just disappeared and then learned later that they passed away. That always bothers me, so I worry about everyone I don't hear from for a while.
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~Fallon~
“What is insanity, anyway? Is it when you scream and everyone else whispers, or is it when you fight for what's right, even when everyone else thinks your wrong?” Ethergoth
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can I just say I'm going crazy over here?!
You're not the only one. I want my computer back. Sadly, I probably won't get it til Monday. In the meantime... I get to deal with computers that are going on EIGHT years old. You would think the university would have a couple extra newer computers to stick in here, since they just put a whole bunch of new ones in the library last summer...
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Rest in peace
yourfuneralguy
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This is an excellent post.
"I suppose my point is that death can be so sudden, and that we shouldn't waste our lives doing something we don't want to do"
Death often comes like a thief in the night.
Rest In Peace.