when someone whom you haven't seen for years passes away

it seems that a chum of mine from high school, whom i haven't seen since around 2007 or so, has passed. he had many problems, most of them related to drug abuse, but all i can find out about his passing is through social media, and all that i know is that he passed.

anyway, it's a surreal feeling. RIP AW.

okay: he was sober, had his life together...and dropped dead of a heart attack. at 29.

fuck god in the face.

The internet is such a horrible way of finding out about bad news like this. Hope yr okay, tables.

oh, i'm fine— he was a hilarious person, made me laugh constantly. it's just weird to go so long without seeing someone that their death affects you, but it's not like "immediate plunge into awful sadness" or anything like that. it's more "man that sucks that ____ died, too bad we'll never be able to run into each other again."

i still mean the "fuck god in the face" part, tho. 29 year olds shouldn't fucking die of heart attacks.

Sorry to hear about this table. I certainly agree with your "fuck god in the face" part, no one should die like that at such a young age.

<italics> it's just weird to go so long without seeing someone that their death affects you, but it's not like "immediate plunge into awful sadness" or anything like that. it's more "man that sucks that ____ died, too bad we'll never be able to run into each other again."</italics>

Sorry Table. I know the feeling.

This happened to me earlier this year. A really wonderful person I met a few years ago passed away the day after his birthday 2010. I would often run into him at a store or farmers market just as I was thinking or wondering how he was doing. Sometimes I'd call him when I was at work just to see how things were going and he would drop by my office from time to time when he was in the neighborhood. This had not happened for several months so I thought I would look him up on Facebook (of course!) instead I found his obituary on some obit site. I was in complete shock. Not only had I missed his passing and funeral by a year but he had just gotten married and had a seven month old son at the time of his death. It took me a few months to get over the shock. I miss him. The closest to closure was contacting his ex-wife on FB. She said his death had been sudden and shocking and said no one was in the right frame of mind to contact everyone on his cell. I become especially sad and miss him when I find myself someplace I know he frequented. I would have loved to have run into him again and meet his new wife and see his baby boy.