budw38
04-12-2010, 09:28 PM
Sorry about your loss . Very nice post's WP'ers . I lost two of My GP's when I was young , never really knew them , one to cancer at 84 yrs . My one grandmother is , I hope going to hit 105 this June . I did lose many friends to car/motorcycle accicents , including my best friend 3 weeks before 9-11-01 ... the worst year IMO .
SmootSmack
04-12-2010, 09:40 PM
I had to bury an uncle this week. (not me personally of course). It wasn't totally unexpected, but still it's devastating.
Have buried three more family members since I wrote this in January, and expecting one more unfortunately.
GMScud
04-12-2010, 10:11 PM
Have buried three more family members since I wrote this in January, and expecting one more unfortunately.
Oh my gosh man. What's going on? I'm hoping they all lived long lives and are dying at old ages. A total of 5 family members in less than 5 months is just too much.
Last Friday this guy Jimmy who was kind of a local legend amongst the bar/restaurant community here in the DC area (lifetime bartender, great at his job, super nice dude from what I hear) died a horrible death. I didn't know him personally, but a lot of our employees were friends with him. He was working at a bar downtown called Front Page. Towards the end of his shift he was walking down some stairs into a storage area to do some re-stocking, and he fell down the stairs and broke his neck. He was having a seizure when a co-worker found him, and eventually went into cardiac arrest. Just awful. I didn't know him, but I'm close with some people who were close with him, and they're all very upset. Such a horrible way to go.
Yeah. Death sucks.
tryfuhl
04-12-2010, 10:11 PM
Have buried three more family members since I wrote this in January, and expecting one more unfortunately.
What the shit man? Sorry to hear that. Not that any passing is good but I hope none were terribly unexpected. Luckily I've had a 2 year break from close passings.
tryfuhl
04-12-2010, 10:13 PM
Oh my gosh man. What's going on? I'm hoping they all lived long lives and are dying at old ages. A total of 5 family members in less than 5 months is just too much.
Last Friday this guy Jimmy who was kind of a local legend amongst the bar/restaurant community here in the DC area (lifetime bartender, great at his job, super nice dude from what I hear) died a horrible death. I didn't know him personally, but a lot of our employees were friends with him. He was working at a bar downtown called Front Page. Towards the end of his shift he was walking down some stairs into a storage area to do some re-stocking, and he fell down the stairs and broke his neck. He was having a seizure when a co-worker found him, and eventually went into cardiac arrest. Just awful. I didn't know him, but I'm close with some people who are close with him, and they're all very upset. Such a horrible way to go.
Yeah. Death sucks.
damn.. how old was he?
GMScud
04-12-2010, 10:22 PM
damn.. how old was he?
42. Waaay too young. And what a way to go. My gosh. Just horrible.
SmootSmack
04-12-2010, 10:25 PM
What the shit man? Sorry to hear that. Not that any passing is good but I hope none were terribly unexpected. Luckily I've had a 2 year break from close passings.
Thanks. Two had lived long fruitful lives and it was simply their time to go. Ironically though those were the unexpected ones. The two younger ones were the ones that we had been preparing for several months now for them to go. By young I mean middle aged, still
GMScud
04-12-2010, 10:32 PM
Thanks. Two had lived long fruitful lives and it was simply their time to go. Ironically though those were the unexpected ones. The two younger ones were the ones that we had been preparing for several months now for them to go. By young I mean middle aged, still
That's terrible SS. Sorry for your losses.
tryfuhl
04-12-2010, 11:15 PM
42. Waaay too young. And what a way to go. My gosh. Just horrible.
Damn man.. that's wild.
tryfuhl
04-12-2010, 11:17 PM
Thanks. Two had lived long fruitful lives and it was simply their time to go. Ironically though those were the unexpected ones. The two younger ones were the ones that we had been preparing for several months now for them to go. By young I mean middle aged, still
I guess better to go without some long drawn out issues with the older ones. It's never easy no matter when or why though. Middle aged is certainly no time to go, that's for sure. Hope you guys have good support around the friends and family, I've been through similar though I think it was more like a year.. not less than half of one.