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Everybody ready for the "Mayan Apocalypse"?

POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 00:54
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PHOENIXROSE

Sunday, December 23, 2012 8:59 AM

Thanks for the sympathies, everyone. Glad the world is still here.

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I take it back, I won't be celebrating my birthday so much as going to a funeral. Maybe the world is coming to an end...

What happened?

My oldest friend died last week at twenty-five. Mortician ruled the cause as respiratory failure (combo sinus infection, asthma, and I'm guessing some valium, though I haven't heard official word on the tox screen.) Basically, she went to sleep on Thursday night and never woke up. She worked too hard, she never took time for herself, her weight was problematic, she was ill... but I hardly expected it, at her age. No one did.
I suppose the only good news is that I probably won't have a worse birthday for as long as I live. The overabundance of doom and gloom in the air this week will be tough to outstrip.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

NIKI2

Sunday, December 23, 2012 4:10 PM

I'm so sorry, Rose, the unexpected ones are, to me, the worst. I guess if you have to go, that's the way, but it doesn't change it for those left behind. We had a really nice neighbor across the street who actually died at aerobics class! You just never know, and too many people work too hard these days.

Here's to better times...

Tit for tat got us where we are today. If we want to be grownups, we need to resist the ugliness. If we each did, this would be a better reflection on Firefly and a more welcome place. I will try.

SIGNYM

Sunday, December 23, 2012 4:15 PM

Oh dear. I'm so sorry ROSE.

My mom just passed away late November because of respiratory failure, but she had COPD and she was very elderly, so as sad as it was, it wasn't a surprise. But 25 years old??? That is shocking and tragic. I can't imagine, I really can't. Can you envision sympathy pouring to you from here? That's what's happening.

Many hugs ROSE; and please take care of yourself.

RIONAEIRE

Monday, December 24, 2012 1:29 AM

Signe a chara, I'm really sorry about your mother's passing, its still hard even if you know its coming. How is your DD doing with it, I assume she knew it would happen, but its still hard losing a grandparent, though losing a parent is harder to be sure.

Rose I'm sorry that your longtime friend passed so young, that's scary when it happens suddenly to someone in their 20s. My condolences.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:54 AM

Rose

Sorry to hear, dont know what else to say. The young people who have died in my life have been mostly suicicdes and car crashes, and more rarely aids, and two to cancer, which can also be surprising at that age, and now two to homocide, but never just a sudden respritory failure like that.