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People passing away unexpectedly.

Captain Chaos

Captain Chaos

Dec 27, 2005
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#1
I just got home 2 hours ago when my manager let us know that one of my coworkers died in her sleep. In fact this morning I was doing my thing when I just happen to remember her singing some song and it made me smile. Don't know what to think. Makes me want to tell everyone in my family I love them .
 
#3
Not to get all morbid but...

I'll never forget where I was or what I was doing when I got the call that my oldest brother had died in a car crash. 20 years ago this summer, just before his 50th birthday. He was 16 years older than me, but I'm four years older now than he lived.

RIP Randy....
 
#6
If we're all very lucky, we get a few decades of existence living on the thin crust of a magma-filled rock flying around a burning hydrogen ball. Whether our lives suck or they're awesome or end too soon, we get some time. It's better than nothing.
 
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#8
A guy I was playing in a band with died in his sleep just a few weeks back. Laid down on his couch to take a nap before going out on a dinner date with a lady friend, and never woke up. No history of problems, no indication of anything wrong, mid 50's in good shape and just didn't wake up.
 
#9
Funny I should see this now. My father passed away unexpectedly in January of 2014 and I just managed to locate and digitally re-record an old cassette tape I made of him, my sister and myself going to Arizona in 1989. It's the only recording I have any place of his voice. We used to go out there to see family every year, and never got to make it back for that one more time for old times sake. But it was a good thing to find. Definitely make more recordings, take pictures, make home movies, now that smart phones have made it so possible. There will come a time when you'll be very glad you did.
 
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A girl I went to college with died this year, that was a trip for me. Very smart woman, finished her degree in December and died in March. She was 24, had updates on her facebook up to the day of her death. She just passed out and never woke up, apparently it was a stroke. No drug abuse or anything, it made me see life very differently. I also was talking to a friend when we were 17 after school and 5 minutes after we parted ways he got hit by a truck and died, equally eerie feeling. From a rather young age I stopped caring about trivial crap, its really not worth it.
 
#19
In the last month my best friend overdosed, my grandfather died of a stroke, and my girlfriend's grandfather died of a heart attack... All that's left is regret that you didn't spend as much time with them as you should have.
 
#20
Back in the '80s, I was working at a small computer company, in manufacturing. One day at break, we were all talking and the maintenance guy was talking about driving back home (Ohio, I believe) and visiting his family. I remember the conversation well. We were talking about whether his car would make it from CA to OH and back. Not an hour later, he died of a heart attack taking the trash out to the dumpster.

Fast forward 3-4 years, I'm working in software development and our manager goes on a two-week vacation back to NY to see family. The Monday morning he is scheduled to be back, we all hear the department secretary screaming. She just got a call from our manager's wife saying that he had passed away during the night.

My mom suffered some debilitating strokes over the years. After my dad passed away, I moved my mom to TX, from CA, so I could look after her. She ultimately ended up in a nursing home after a colostomy and going on dialysis (as a result of diabetes). After about 10 months of dialysis, she said she had had enough. The doctor said it would only take about 5-7 days, 10 tops, before she would pass away. I called my brothers and my sister and told them. One by one, they each made it out here to see my mom. She lasted three weeks and got to have quality time with her kids when they visited. I had skipped a couple of days going to see her but planned on going on a Friday after work. Right as I was getting ready to leave, the nursing home called to say that she had passed away. We were given all this extra time to see her. As I look back I think I must have taken it for granted when I skipped those couple of days. I will always regret not being there and having the feeling that she died alone. My mom basically planned her passing, and I still missed it.
 

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