h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, the funeral has ended and the mourners have all left to carry on with their lives...............to bad Josh is not one of them. I am still not sure i understand why one so young must die. He was not ill nor was he reckless........he JUST DIED! I spent the day looking about at all the people who came to bid him goodbye, such an odd sight indeed......a funeral home FULL of young people with a smattering of elderly folks wandering about. I looked at the sight, thought about it and again found myself wondering....WHY? 21 years and 21 days the preacher said.....much to young to die if you ask me.......... 

I am so very sorry for y'alls loss. A death at any age is hard to take. Hug your honey, and your "babies" and be thankful for every day you have with them.

My sister died unexpectedly, of a heart attack, Dec 12. She left a 15yo and a 18 yo. Life is short, make it sweet.

Debra


PS Do y'all really live in Gardendale??? I lived there for 13 years, loved it, sent my kids to Tabernacle, my grand daughter goes there now!

Thank-you for your sympathy, a young death is very hard to deal with. my husband and i are still trying to come to grips with his death. i think it would of been different had he been older or had he been sick but he just went to take a shower and never made it past the bathroom sink . if nothing else it has shown us that life is short and you cannot afford to put anything off until tomorrow. if you have been down to my other pages at the bottom you will see that part of the realization........
by the way, yes we really do live in gardendale, have been here for about 8 years now and love it! it is great to live somewhere that you do not have to worry about locking doors and you can safely walk the streets at any hour.you said you lived here for 13 years, where do you live now? is it still in Alabama? if so, did you know the family that my husband wrote about that died in the housefire on the weekend of the 4th of July? they are right down the street from us. it was a terrible loss, the man that died was the dark haired man with the beard that was in the wheelchair, he used to wheel all around town, it is strange to not see him anymore.
anyway, this seems to be turning out to be more of a letter and less of a forum entry so i'd best stop typing for now.
monshari

Just checked over at FS, not enough info to tell if I knew the family or not. Will ask The Eldest. Her father still lives in G'Dale (with his mother, but THAT is a whole nuther forum!)

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sounds like it would make quite an interesting forum......
monshari

monshari,

just dropped in to say hello. then i see this entry which changes my mood entirely. i'm terribly sorry to hear this. i can't express how tragic i think it is when someone so young is robbed of their life.
i'm truly very, very sorry to hear this news.

all my respect.

thank-you for your sympathy enigmaniacs it was and still is something that i do not understand but as i am fond of saying everything happens for a reason.....i just wish i could discover what the reason for this is.....right now it just seems like something without reason that only serves to cause pain but i am sure in time the reason will be made clear to me.
monshari

Unfortunately, you're never too young to die.

It may sound like a broken record, but I'm sorry and send my sympathy.

I'm not going to say any words of wisdom, because I have none (words or wisdom? probably both).

I hope you're feeling better.

thank you very much for your words and do not worry about not having any words of wisdom for me.....there really are none when it comes to this...it is one of those things that makes no sense and is unexplainable except for the obvious "it can happen to anyone". the one thing this has done is to serve to teach my husband and I that life is not a guarantee and we should do our best to live each day as if it were our last. as for feeling better it is as they say "time heals all wounds,some just take longer than others". again thank-you for your words they were much appreciated
monshari

But you can't spend your life worring about death. You won't live it. Just try to be happy, and enjoy life. Try not to let death scare you.

Best wishes.

i am sorry if what i said seemed to sound as if i was worried about death....i have trouble putting what i am feeling into words so a lot of the time it comes out wrong. what i am saying is not to think of death all the time but to think of life and at the same time understand that life is too short to be unhappy so by all means enjoy yourself . i am not saying that we will always be happy in life there will be times when we are not but we should do our best to enjoy the good with the bad. does that make sense or am i just rambling on by trying to clarify my earlier misspeak?
monshari

Sorry, I just hear the phrase "Live life like it is your last day." a lot. I tried it once and gave up after a day, because it depressed me and I felt like I had to really make something of the day. I was disappointed when I only felt like watching TV. Maybe I'm just an idiot and no one has ever meant that literally .

Well....if what you wound up doing was spending the day watching tv and that was what you felt like doing then you did just exactly what i was speaking of with that comment.....it doesn't mean wear yourself out trying to do everything "just in case", it means BE HAPPY
too many people spend theire lives worrying about things they cannot control or unhappy doing what they do not want to do, there is no sense in it.....i feel that they should realize that in the end it does not matter. i mean take for instance these women out here starving themselves for the "PERFECT" look.....they spend their lives miserable because they are not eating what they want and in the end does it really matter that much what size you are???, why are they not instead enjoying the food that is around them (maybe in moderation i mean not to the point of gluttony) and being happy......
i hope that example made sense it was the only thing i could think of at the time