Im a little shooken

[jay o2 waster]

http://woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3579023&nav=0RcdbzfO

I just found out today that two kids that I knew from high school died in a car accident sunday night. I sat next to one of them in Web Design. We weren't friends or anything like that but it just feels so fucked up.

[jay o2 waster]

http://video.woodtv.com/index.php?video_id=973

[bwind22]

That sucks dude. Sorry to hear that.

A dude I went to high school with died shortly after due to a heart problem they didnt know he had.

Just goes to show ya, when your number's up... It's up. Doesn't matter how young or healthy you are, shit happens.

Sorry dude.

[taylorsmommy]

Sorry to hear that, Jay

[ShankS]

Not nice hearing about people you once knew, having their lives ended in tragic events....especially when you can associate with them so easily as you were in the same class.

went through a few bad occasions like that myself, think one of the worst was a friends suicide. Went to infant school together and both to the same secondry school and stayed good friends throughout. When we left he went to a different college, me another, but we kept intouch.... then out of the blue my mum got a phone call from his mum, as they were friends too, that he'd killed himself ...jumped infront of a train one night.

He'd been going through a rough patch, no one even knew the full extent to what it was about about, or the cause. Even his parents wern't too sure as he distanced himself from many people. I was pretty shocked, especially as the place where the tragic event happened, was a train crossing over a foot path near the woods, we used to go to as kids and watch the trains.

[bwind22]

Originally posted by ShankS
Not nice hearing about people you once knew, having their lives ended in tragic events....especially when you can associate with them so easily as you were in the same class.

went through a few bad occasions like that myself, think one of the worst was a friends suicide. Went to infant school together and both to the same secondry school and stayed good friends throughout. When we left he went to a different college, me another, but we kept intouch.... then out of the blue my mum got a phone call from his mum, as they were friends too, that he'd killed himself ...jumped infront of a train one night.

He'd been going through a rough patch, no one even knew the full extent to what it was about about, or the cause. Even his parents wern't too sure as he distanced himself from many people. I was pretty shocked, especially as the place where the tragic event happened, was a train crossing over a foot path near the woods, we used to go to as kids and watch the trains.

Wow! I knew a kid that did almost this exactly same thing! I knew the dude since we were in middle school but havent talked to him much since, then last year my dad (Who works with his dad) told me he jumped in front of a train and killed himself. Total shocker.

I've actually had to deal with suicides (Which to me is worse than accidental tragedy because its totally preventable) quite a bit more than the average joe. I'm 25 and I've personally known 5 people that killed themselves. (If you're doing the math, that's an average of one person I know killing themselves every 5 years.) There's the train one, a jumper (A co-worker), 2 hangers (A childhood friend and the older sister of a childhood friend), and an exhaust pipe carbon monoxide in the car one (My boss at the grocery store I worked at got cheating on his wife with the cashier. He couldn't bare the guilt I guess and never turned up for work again. They found him like 2 days later a few miles from his cabin, duct taped inside his Suburban with a hose to the exhaust pipe. It was the middle of summer and evidently the inside of the vehicle got up to like 400 degrees before they found him and most of his skin had boiled off so it was a closed casket.)

I also knew a guy a couple years ago that had his car break down on a freeway late one rainy night. He got out and tried to flag down someone for help, but all of the traffic was on the other side of the freeway. So he jumped the median and went over there to try and flag someone down except that he didn't quite make it. He got smeared by a 16-Wheeler in the last lane he was crossing. Needless to say he didn't make it.

It really sucks dealing with death all the time. In the last year I've had to be a pall bearer for 2 dead relatives too. (Both of natural causes, but still!)




The one good thing about people you know dying is that it makes you appreciate your life that much more. As well as appreciate those around you more.

[barbra]

you know...


people die. Thats the only thing in life that you can be certain of. You will die. Its not so shocking really when you think back on history. EVERYONE died! Imagine that. I promise, no one you know will be the first to not die. You WILL die. Me too and your neighbor, even your dog.

[ItsAlive75]

Your mom, dad, even that fat chick at Dairy Queen... dead.

[Gren the cake]

shit happens. well its not like they were murdered, or died of some fucked up disease or anything

and think about it this way - they died before they had the chance to do something insanely stupid. HOORAY FOR ACIDENTS!

no seroiusly, sorry bout that but yeeh..

[jay o2 waster]

Originally posted by barbra
you know...


people die. Thats the only thing in life that you can be certain of. You will die. Its not so shocking really when you think back on history. EVERYONE died! Imagine that. I promise, no one you know will be the first to not die. You WILL die. Me too and your neighbor, even your dog. Albert Fucking Einstein

I mean seriously, I've met some smart people in my time, but you have changed the way I think of the way of life. You know what else. My grandpa. Who is one of my closest family members outside of my imediate family. Well he has had cancer and is in a hospice home and thursday I am going to go and see him for what is probbly the last time. I'm going to pause four you to insert some common knowledge.

***

Yah, no shit everybody dies. And just because they do doesn"t mean that it isn"t hard to deal with. But I'm sure that you already knew that too.

[barbra]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jay o2 waster [QUOTE]


I was upset when my grand parents died also. I wasn't trying to be mean or hit you when your down ya know...
People die. you might not really realize it even though you are aware of it is all.

[bwind22]

Originally posted by barbra
you know...


people die. Thats the only thing in life that you can be certain of. You will die. Its not so shocking really when you think back on history. EVERYONE died! Imagine that. I promise, no one you know will be the first to not die. You WILL die. Me too and your neighbor, even your dog.

I thought paying taxes was a certainty too. Death and taxes, ya know?


If you've ever studied Catholicism, the Virgin Mary didn't die. (She ascended body & soul into heaven.) She is the only person in recorded history that I am aware of to escape death. (Whether you believe that or not is an entirely different matter, but that's what's written in the Bible.)

[evil_blonde]

=( *E-hugs & all that great stuff.*

[barbra]

Originally posted by bwind22
I thought paying taxes was a certainty too. Death and taxes, ya know?


If you've ever studied Catholicism, the Virgin Mary didn't die. (She ascended body & soul into heaven.) She is the only person in recorded history that I am aware of to escape death. (Whether you believe that or not is an entirely different matter, but that's what's written in the Bible.) well then you should include jesus

[mitchdoran]

Originally posted by barbra
well then you should include jesus

she... really doesn't get it?

:(

sorry nevermind.

[barbra]

Im really slow in the head.

undead and alive.. one in the same

[mitchdoran]

Sorry, I didnt mean to be rude, but Jesus "died for our sins."


If thats what you're going with

I'm not too big on organized religion

nevermind

[Gren the cake]

Originally posted by jay o2 waster
Yah, no shit everybody dies. And just because they do doesn"t mean that it isn"t hard to deal with. But I'm sure that you already knew that too. [/B]
If life were too easy, it wouldn't be worth living (kind of a strange statement, but i think you get the idea.. basically, what i'm saying, the good, the bad... its all important)

Anyway.. thats exactly why paradise/heaven/immortality would never work (im speaking religious wise, of course... but this is just IMO. as in, no, im not down with living forever in paradise under God's grace. I'm gonna make sure I can do all i can now).

[bwind22]

Originally posted by barbra
well then you should include jesus


Like Mitch said, Jesus technically died once, then came back from the dead 3 days later and went body and soul to heaven. He didn't really escape death in the way that the Virgin Mary did, he resurrected.