has a close friend of yours died?

So sorry you're going through such a difficult time dealing with the death of your best friend. How blessed you were to have such a good friend in your life. I have two best friends that are sisters to me since we were just toddlers and I can't bear to think of them not being in my life. I turned 50 this year and thoughts have come across my mind of one of us getting sick. The two of them have had their scares over the last few years with breast cancer. I've been in the medical profession for over 30 years and see way too much. That's why I am getting serious about a healthier lifestyle and I plan to spend as much time with them as possible.

I hope your days are filled with beautiful memories of your friend and will make you smile when you think of k.

All my best to you.

A close friend of mine was killed by a drunk driver at the age of 15. It has been nearly 17 years but it still hurts to think about it. The woman that hit her got a slap on the wrist, even after speeding off from the scene and trying to hide. I never understood it. The justice system can sure screw people sometimes. That girl would be 32 years old today, just like me. I had not even lost a grandparent or anyone remotely close to me when that happened, so that really knocked me down.

Many times when I get down about my own life, I think of her and how she barely got to have one.

My parents are now in their 70s. I was born when they were a bit older. They are in good health, but even when they die at a "normal" old age, I will still have to live a large portion of my life without them. That thought saddens me because nobody loves you the way a parent does. It's one big reason I have shyed away from taking a job out of state, because I know that I will want this time with them now when they are gone later.

Yes, my best friend died when i was 13... We grew up together, he was the son of my moms best friend and was more of a brother to me than my own brother. There's not a single day that has gone by since his passing that i don't think of him, and i mean that... We were inseperable.... He left a void in my life that can never be filled, but as i grew up it helped me to look back and be so thankful for the time we had together. Wow you MFP'ers ask some hard hitting questions...

Now I understand what people say when you've lost both your parents.....you feel like you're orphaned. I do. Even though I just turned 50, I've lost both my parents. My father passed away last June and my mother in 1996.....just 3 days before my daughter was born. She was born on the day of my mother's funeral, 16 years ago in July.

Life does go on, but until you have experienced that loss and that pain, you never fully realize what it's like to live with that piece of you that's gone. It's never the same again, that's true, but it doesn't mean that life will never be fulfilling again. I experienced that ten fold with the death of my mother and the birth of my daughter. That bittersweet time of my life has taught me so much about myself and about life.

Just 2 years a friend of mine (who was more like family to me than a friend and I referred to him as my uncle) passed from liver cirrhosis. It was the first time someone I was really close to died. I cried for months over him and still miss him very much. There were many times he was like a dad to me. Maybe because he was my dad's best friend.
Now I worry about losing my dad who has 2 brain aneurysms. I'm not ready to lose him yet and it scares the he** out of me that with every heartbeat it could be his last.
I have lost friends through the years. No one that I was really close to, more or less just people I went to school with and called them "friends" because I knew them. It's a harsh reality to see someone your own age in a casket. Was a real eye opener for me.

My best friends mom has fought breast cancer for a very long time, got it 3 different times. she lived a very healthy life and did everything above and beyond of what was expected of her. Unfortunately, because of the long term treatment for breast cancer, she got other serious health issues, lungs filled with fluid, got brain tumors, couldn't go anywhere without an oxygen tank.

I was in my doctors office in the waiting room when i got the call from my best friend telling me she passed, i cried uncontrollably, she was the strongest woman i have ever known. she did more for me than my own mother has in my entire life.. I still tear up thinking about her.

R.I.P Kathy.....

Yes...my college roommate my 2nd year of college, who became one of my closest friends. She died in May 1999 from cancer. I was living out of state at the time, going to graduate school, and didn't get to see her before she died, although we talked on the phone and wrote often. Not being able to really say goodbye was the hardest thing.

My best friend Mark killed himself in Oct 1996. I still miss him to this day...it never goes away. I'm sorry for your loss.

P.S. From Aug 2008 to June 2009, I had 8 deaths in my life of people very close and dear to me. Life carries on, painfully sometimes...

One of my closest friends died on Mother's Day 2009 from breast cancer. She was 36 years old and left behind 3 young daughters. I miss her terribly. This time of year, when I realized that she really was going to leave us and trying to spend as much time with her as I could, makes me sad.
And my died died unexpectedly August 2006. Every time I take the kids to the pediatrician, I remember the phone call I received while I was driving down that road, and I still feel like I've been hit in the chest.
I will still think that I need to call them and tell them something or "I'll ask Daddy about that" on occasion.

This year has been awful. Our granddaughter died in Jan., she was 3 years old (cancer). In March my husbands good friend died of cancer, he was 47. This month my father in law and a family friend (age 48) died on the same day, both cancer. The day we buried my FIL my aunt passed away, she was 97. I'm hoping things get better.

I lost a good friend when I was 18. She passed the day before high school graduation from Minengitious....no idea how to spell that. It was a terrible loss. My mother in law died 6 months ago and her brother just passed a couple weeks ago. But I do feel a little different when its a friend that passes. I'm so sorry for your loss.

When I was 15 my good friend died. It was very sudden and unexpected and hit me and my friends hard. His and my families were friends too so it really affected me. I still cry when I think about him 20 years on
I don't think any of us really dealt with it at the time, there were a few of us who found him and should really have had counselling but never did.

Other than my grandfather, my first experience was at 17 when my dad died. Now i know parents die but NOBODY should lose a parent before becoming an adult. NEVER!!

After that, one of my good friends was gunned down by a cop in 2009. When I moved to Massachusetts, I went to a school where outsiders weren't welcome. I was 16 and in 11th grade and very alone. This guy who died was the only one who accepted me and took me under his wing. I was so heartbroken when he died, he was only 24.