Death of a classmate

[ms_ann_thrope]

That's what Facebook is good for, obits and creeping on ex's. Just gone...not like we kept in touch. I'm not big on that, but still, you watch people grow up, you get attached somehow. Almost family, but not. She was always skinny. 90 lbs skinny. Bagged a doctor. But dead? That's no way to live.

 

[RobDownSouth]

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff502/Soonyigump/BertAnnYoureNext_zpsnfvinxvk.jpg

 

[thør]

One from my HS class kicked the bucket earlier this week.

 

[queerhe]

Was it cancer?

 

[Noor]

sad. I am getting kind of used to it now.

The nice thing about Facebook it that you can be part of a support group when people are dying and it seems to make it easier on them and their family.

2 of my long time friends have terminal illnesses, are past their prognosis dates and not physically near me, but via Facebook we can keep in touch, they can do updates once and not have to tell or write updates to everyone.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

ALS. 9 months. Like being unborn.

 

[Noor]

sad. I am getting kind of used to it now.

The nice thing about Facebook it that you can be part of a support group when people are dying and it seems to make it easier on them and their family.

2 of my long time friends have terminal illnesses, are past their prognosis dates and not physically near me, but via Facebook we can keep in touch, they can do updates once and not have to tell or write updates to everyone.

Usually if the person has a lot of Facebook contacts who are not immediate friends and family, someone sets up a group so it's not public.

When Byron died, his Facebook was used to coordinate parts of his service, and provide his music and photos that his family didn't have. To get people in touch, make announcements and to support each other. He only had people he knew well and their family members/SOs/kids... on it, so it worked well.

 

[smoothg103rd]

A classmate of mine died recently too. If that was your friend then I'm sorry for your lost.

 

[Aquagal]

Odd. Two weeks ago the first kid I met in kindergarten died. He FB'd me about 2 yrs ago, so through pictures I enjoyed seeing what he'd made of his life. After all these years I still remember we were born one week apart.

 

[Jackoffking]

Hey bet they were all non smokers man

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Odd. Two weeks ago the first kid I met in kindergarten died. He FB'd me about 2 yrs ago, so through pictures I enjoyed seeing what he'd made of his life. After all these years I still remember we were born one week apart.

Not quite family but still a connection to what ever this is.

 

[thør]

Was it cancer?

Nope, prolly connected to the auto accident that left him a busted up mess in his mid 20's. He was one day younger than me.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I'm in my mid-50s, and my Facebook high school page had an interesting post recently....we've had an inordinate number of deaths and really esoteric life-threatening diseases in our class. Someone pointed out that almost all of them (all but one, actually) occurred with folks who grew up in houses on the CITY water supply. Those on the COUNTY water supply were all healthy. We had a specialty chemical company within the city limits that got shut down in the 1970s for dumping their chemical waste into the city sewers.

(Sorry query, I was on county water).

 

[doowdniw]

My roommate from senior year in college died suddenly a couple of years ago in his mid 50s. Kind of brings it home when contemporaries start popping off.

 

[Not Normal]

I seriously have no clue if anyone I went to school with has passed. I'm not on facebook, and reliving HS is one of the reasons why.

 

[smoothg103rd]

I seriously have no clue if anyone I went to school with has passed. I'm not on facebook, and reliving HS is one of the reasons why.

You got bullied huh?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

heh...

 

[girlsmiley]

You got bullied huh?

That's what you took from his post?

Jump to conclusions, much?

God you're a bore.

 

[smoothg103rd]

That's what you took from his post?

Jump to conclusions, much?

God you're a bore.

Nah I don't jump into conclusions much, just half the time.

 

[girlsmiley]

A few of my high school girlfriends have passed away over the last few months.

Older than me, in their 30s.

Cancer.

So young and beautiful.

A stark reminder of how precious life is, and how death smiles at us all.

 

[lynn-23]

Three kids I went to school with have died in the last year or two. A girl I was friends with in highschool (car accident), a boy I knew since kindergarten I think (liver problem I assume was brought on by drinking) and a girl I had known most of my life as well (cancer). The girl killed in the accident I had not seen since we graduated really. When she died I found her facebook and saw she had moved to montana, married divorced, remarried, ran a small restaraunt. The other two I had gone to school with since grade school, so it was sooo sad when they both died. I can remember childhood birthday parties with them, girl scout meeting and camping trips with Pam, and fun in highschool. Pam turned into sort of the class slut in highschool. But she was near top of the class in grades, and was always sooo nice to everyone. She had a singing voice that was just amazing. She married and lived in the next town from where we grew up. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was gone in just a few months. She was 30 years old. It makes you realize how short and precious life is.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I like it when the BMOC and Great Girls die.