has a close friend of yours died?

The 2 year anniversary of a close friend's suicide is coming up in two weeks (on my birthday which makes it suck even more). I think about him all the time and still question if I missed any signs that he was going to kill himself in the weeks leading up to his death....RIP PM....I won't ever forget you.

Yes. A good friend of mine died last year. He was supposed to come to my birthday party, and I was a little hurt, cuz it was my 40th. But he was a busy guy, and was always involved in so many things, and although it was strange that he didn't show up, I chalked it up to spreading himself too thin.

Turned out he had a stroke on the Friday, my birthday was on Saturday, and he wasn't found 'til Sunday, when someone dropped by his house to take him out for breakfast. He was a lovely man, taken too soon, and the whole community felt the loss. I often think I see him in places I expect him to be. And I miss him very much.

Yes. My best friend/on and off again bf died 5 years ago in a motorcycle accident - drunk driver hit him. We had a very complicated relationship/friendship for many reasons and I told him 2 months before he was killed that I couldn't see/speak to him anymore. All because it made my then bf jealous. I hate myself every day for that decision and there isn't a day that goes by that I still don't miss him

Just before Easter weekend three years ago a beautiful little girl I knew was kidnapped, raped and brutally murdered. My father had died 10 weeks earlier and when I went to the Alzheimer's walk the day after he died I started to cry and didn't think I could manage. This little girl saw me, came running over and started chatting away and walking with me so I had to pull it together so she wouldn't ask why I was crying. Three days after the girl was kidnapped my mother died very unexpectedly. I was grief-stricken but hoped that the girl would turn up okay. Several weeks later two people were arrested and charged with her murder. I felt as if the three deaths were so intertwined, the triple loss was so close together. And now at the three year anniversary the trial of one of the murderer's is going on and I have to hear all of the awful things that happened. Sometimes I just want to go to bed and cry nonstop.

I lost two friends in high school in separate car accidents. We weren't extremely close but ran in the same group.

What bothers me a lot more is the fact that my husband is the same age my mother was when she died (I was 13). I don't even want to think about that :frown:

yes, including one on 9/11

After both parents pass, it's a very lonely feeling. Mine both passed by the time I was 40.

Yes my three close friends two of them my exes. I still hurt in pain but I manage to go on with life. There is a brighter tomorrow and you just keep holding on.

Actually, i am extremely fortunate to not have lost any immediate family members for most of my life, only person i remember passing is my grandma on my moms side. However, i have had several close friends pass, which isn't any easier.

I'm afraid for how i will handle my grandparent's death on my dads side. Cause i know my G-PA hasn't much longer to live. And i want to make sure he can see me succeed with my goal to become a United States Marine before he passes.

I have had three close friends die since high school- two from cancer and one from asthma. I work in the ER and the buddy that died of an asthma attack was my patient... I will forever carry the images of him forever in my memory of him on the morgue cart after with a tube inserted through his neck because they could not intubate him... All three were not even 25 years old.

I do think the older you get the more people you know that have passed on. I lost a friend for the first time when I was 8, it was a tragic accident. :frown:

A friend of mine who was a big brother to me was shot the day after christmas.. he lives 6 hours away and it was so quick that we didn't know he was shot until he was gone. Even harder was when we got there we helped plan his funeral, give the final ok that he looked like him before everyone saw him at the wake, my fiance was even the one who picked his clothes to be buried in. can't believe how hard it was and how much it still doesn't sink in.

Yes- I lost a kindred spirit about 16 years ago. She was only 19 with a 1 year old baby- working the 3rd shift so she could be with her son during the day. Burning the candle at both ends until she fell asleep at the wheel and crashed when she was almost home. I still miss her.

I also lost an ex to a heart attack when he was only 32. It's still hard to wrap my head around that.

I lost a good friend last fall. We'd only met one year (almost exactly one year) before. He was an actor in a local film I was doing make-up for. I spent about 4 hours giving him some fake tattoos and we were quick friends. He had just moved to my home town so called me a lot looking for ideas of things to do. We talked online a lot, did a couple short films together.

He was only one year older than me, 29, had two kids, just like me, and died peacefully in his sleep. No warning. It REALLY made me re-evaluate my life and what I'm doing with my creativity.

Up to a certain age, a lot of people don't really think about death. There's a feeling of having all the time in the world. Losing someone really puts some reality in you.

Had a bad couple of years myself. My little brother died, a few years later I lost one of my best friends. Two weeks later, my mom died and my gramp a month later. And then next year, my stepdad died. I'm only 34, but I think about losing my dad now, even though he is totally healthy and just turned 50. But everyone else died and they were healthy and young too. It really brings your mortality up front and center when things like that happen.