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Fast Eddie

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Last week I learnt that an old friend had passed suddenly, it was a shock, particularly as I’d only been conversing with him a week or so prior and he seemed so full of beans.

Perhaps it was a car crash or similar, or even covid, I thought.

Today I learnt it was suicide.

That’s over half a dozen or so close ish people to me who have gone this way. All premature death is sad, but suicide seems particularly gut wrenching.

RIP Mick.
 
We had a big group of college kids show up at our evening service at church last night. Hardly normal, few ever come, but it turns out that one of their friends pulled the plug and they were in as a show of respect for him or her who died. It seems impossible that a young kid in college living the life would be so troubled as to give up. You read about it all the time but doesn't hit home until it happens at home I guess. Looking back, when I was young, I knew six kids who died way too early. It just is more common than we think.
 
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I had a call from my brother today and told me his wife passed away over a month ago, was good of him to let me know, suicide if only they know what grift it brings to family and friends and even worst not knowing why, so hard on everyone.
 
My years up to mid 30's when living in Scotland 5 of my friends in very short intervals took their lives. Two of them I shared flats with. Nobody can explain their reasons only they left shattered families and parents behind them.
 
Suicide-a permanent solution to a temporary problem. My poor mother struggled for 37 years till her dying day trying to understand why her first born, my sister, would do such a thing.:(
 
After a fellow I knew took his life, to my amazement, I asked a friend why. He said because they cannot stand the pain of living with some problem but many times it is a need to be noticed and sometimes to hurt someone. Many reasons, all of them tough to understand.
 
You can beat yourself senseless looking for answers in these situations, I know two who were close to those who were successful in their attempts, and I've also had two family members who weren't... though one's attempt had them in a coma for days with no clues as to whether they'd regain consciousness or not.
It may be a simplistic view, and I apologize wholeheartedly if anyone suffering disagrees, but my answer was/is we're all on a journey through life, many enjoy the ride and want to stay on as long as possible. Some, however, don't like the journey or their destination and choose to get off before the final stop.
 
Guys, I just went to the service of a fellow shipmate I served with back in the 90's, he was 49.....(ten years junior to me). He succumbed to a health issue and not suicide, but it was shocked none the less, since he was so much younger.
 
I have never lost any of my mates from suicide, all from bad living and drinking to much or the dreaded heart attack but that comes under bad living and not eating right, none from motorcycle accidents, some have come close and had bad injuries.
 
Suicide is complex and effects us in different ways.. spare a thought for those who display enormouse moralcourage inthe struggle to stay alive before listening tothose inner voices and heeding the siren call
 
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