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a very good friend of moe’s and mine unexpectedly died yesterday. apparently, his wife, moe’s friend trudy, woke up yesterday morning and found him dead in the kitchen. it was very traumatic for everyone, including me, surprisingly enough, despite the fact that i didn’t know him that well. he was relatively young, healthy and strong, literally had everything a man could want, and yet he’s dead.

i spent all day yesterday in a fog, wondering why him and not me. in spite of the fact that i was terrifically tired, and slept through the night, i woke up in the same fog this morning.

6 thoughts on “857”

  1. Yes, I was thinking of you, and the similarity of your experience, when I made the comment above. You certainly feel any obligation to comment, but I appreciate the things you’ve said here. It is enough for us both to say that we empathize with the other, and we can leave it at that.

  2. I’m so sorry… I’ve been thinking about death a lot. Not to sound depressing… just thinking about life in terms of death, maybe that’s a better way to put it. Death always comes as a shock, I think. Even when someone’s been ill for a long time, but obviously especially so when it’s very sudden. It really jolts us. My sympathies to all of you who knew him.

  3. I’m really sorry to hear this. There are probably many reasons you’re still around, though 🙂

  4. thank you… i’ve been following your updates on your sister, but i haven’t commented because i don’t know what to say, except that i hope everything works out okay (which is exactly the same thing that everyone else is saying), and i’ve always been of the conviction that everything always works out for the best, regardless of what happens. i’ve also avoided commenting because i know how awful it is being a victim of something like your sister’s accident, and the helpless feeling of being in the hospital and so forth, and there isn’t anything that i could say that would make her stay in the hospital any easier, or make you and your family feel any better about it… but you’re definitely in my thoughts as well.

  5. I am so very sorry to hear of the death of your friend. I understand the fog of which you speak, because I have been in one myself. I wish that there was something that I could say that would make his death make sense, but of course we both that there isn’t. Only know that there are people who care about you, myself included, and that I wish you well.

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