Life is bizarre...

[wiseheart]

... and so is death.

One of my elder cousins died yesterday - she was run over by a truck while cycling. She died at once, on the spot. Not her fault, apparently - but how does that help her brother who's really devastated?

I didn't know her well. We've only met a few times and certainly not at all in the last twenty years or so. But she was a kind person, or so those relatives who knew her better say... and she's the first of my own generation to pass over.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Wha a tragedy, life really is bizarre. I'm sorry for your and your family's loss.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Actually, Mum is a lot more shocked than I am - funnily enough, she had more contact to Cousin M than I, as they both worked for the food industry union. I was hard-pressed to remember her face at all; it was her brother who stayed a bit more in touch.

[artemis10002000]

Yeah, makes sense it would hit her harder. I hope she is handling it as well as can be under the circumstances, hearing it from afar it strikes me as if she's been losing a lot of people lately.

[meathiel]

Oh geez ... what a way to die!
I'm sorry for your loss, even if you didn't know her well.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's an odd feeling, really.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

{{{hugs}}}

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

That's horrendous. One of my best work friends was killed in the same way some years ago. It was a horrible shock to everyone who knew her.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sudden death always is. Although perhaps the lesser evil than watch a loved one getting weaker by each new day. My Grandma lasted six months after taking a dall and breaking her thighbone. Those were the longest and most depressing six months of our lives.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

So sad... my sympathies to your family.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry, hugs.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you. As I said, I barely knew her, but still...

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear about your cousin, my sympathies to you and her family. May she rest in peace.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear that. I think sudden death is so much more difficult to deal with.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think watching my Grandma die piece by piece during a period of six months was much worse. But yeah, this was shocking.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am sorry. That realisation that it is someone of your own generation is quite a blow, isn't it ?

I am the last of a threesome of friends from university, and it feels very odd.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I had classmates who died unexpectedly at a much younger age, and I was closer to them. But when it happens within the family it is different, I think.