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Dead friends
OP - August 29, 2011, 11:20 PM

Another cheery thread.

No extensive commentary is requested but if you vote, please do list the following:

1. How you voted
2. Your age (currently)
3. Your friend's age
4. How they died

Family members do not count for purposes of the poll, but participants are encouraged to mention family members in their reply posts if they want to.

Just doing an informal survey cause I'm curious.

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Re: Dead friends
Reply #1 - August 29, 2011, 11:22 PM

1. None
2. 16
3. N/A
4. N/A

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Re: Dead friends
Reply #2 - August 29, 2011, 11:26 PM

I voted 'none,' although someone with whom I was friends in what you might call 'elementary school' died in a fire a few years ago. I've been fortunate enough not to lose friends in that way, though I know people who have lost several.
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Re: Dead friends
Reply #3 - August 29, 2011, 11:27 PM

You're 16, Harakaat?!? I thought you were like 30 or something, you seem so mature and eloquent.
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Re: Dead friends
Reply #4 - August 29, 2011, 11:30 PM

More votes than posts. Let me clarify-- if you're not willing to give the requested info in a reply post please do not vote. It fucks up the Colonel's fucked-up, meaningless internal methodology.

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Re: Dead friends
Reply #5 - August 29, 2011, 11:31 PM

1. One
2. 27
3. hmmm think around 11 or 12 years old
4. She had a severe asthma attack and other complications that ultimately were fatal if I remember correctly
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Re: Dead friends
Reply #6 - August 29, 2011, 11:36 PM

1.more than 1 less than 4
2.17
3.my grandma(60) ad my uncle(60s)
4.she been sick for sometime and then she just died..my uncle >heart attack
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Re: Dead friends
Reply #7 - August 29, 2011, 11:48 PM

1. 2 friends have died
2. 23 years old
3. One was 18, the other 17
4. The first died from a heroin overdose, the latter from being stabbed in the chest in a fight.

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Re: Dead friends
Reply #8 - August 29, 2011, 11:54 PM

1. one
2. 24
3. 25
4. hiking accident... although he knew what he was doing (he was into all kinds of outdoorsy stuff and skydiving in particular) he went off the trail to take a better look at a waterfall... and fell to his death. he was the most amazing person.

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Re: Dead friends
Reply #9 - August 30, 2011, 12:23 AM

1: No close friends (just one acquaintance (27 yrs old) who I met a few times)
2: 29
3: N/A
4: N/A

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Re: Dead friends
Reply #10 - August 30, 2011, 12:36 AM

Sorry, I voted then read your comment 'no family members'. My deaths were all close family so, if you can. please delete my vote

FYI my deaths:

1. 3
2. My current age 29
3. 38, 70's and 80's
4. All medical related

The deaths were my dad (38) he died when I was 12 of acute pancreatitis and septicemia
My granma a couple yrs ago, she was in her 80's (can't say exact age as she didn't even know)
My grandad died of lung cancer I think, it was also when I was 12, oddly 6 months before my dad died. At the time I was a child (I was a late developer so when I say child I was akin to a 8 yr old) so I didn't really understand. I knew he was dead but I was sort of detached from the experience. My dad died suddenly 6 months later and this was unexpected, he'd been perfectly fine before he died. When he died I was detached too, it was so intense. So much to take in. So much badness followed by worse shit from family members since then to this day. I think this really fucked me up. I've been on shut down since then to deal with stress and have developed a strange character- a feelingless one.

Death of a parent at a young age is traumatic, and it's even shittier when accompanied by mysoginistic bastards bent on ruining your life cos they can't accept that a woman (my mum) can continue and do better than them.
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Re: Dead friends
Reply #11 - August 30, 2011, 04:56 AM

1. None
2. 22
3. NA
4. NA

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Re: Dead friends
Reply #12 - August 30, 2011, 07:42 AM

1 - 1 (although friends of friends have died, I don't count them)
2 - meh
3 - 15
4 - Not sure who killed her, they fished her body out of the canal. She had been a herion addict since she was 9 which is when her father started injecting her so that he could rape her. I met her in a childrens home when I was 13/14 but she was a hard core addict by then and also a prostitute. It was heart breaking at the time and even more so as I grew up and truly understood what a sad life she had had.

Since then I have been very fortunate in my friends, I ope it stays that way for years and years to come. At 14 I was better able to emotionally distance myself from death and never cried for my friend, I think now though, it would hurt because I'm more invested in my friends.

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Re: Dead friends
Reply #13 - August 30, 2011, 08:05 AM

1. 2 friends have died
2. 49 years old
3. 19 and 50
4. The first died in a diving accident and the second of lung cancer; he had been a heavy smoker since an early age and was sick for many years before he died.
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