Anyone ever have an old high school friend die in a freak accident?

>>18115914
bump for OP.

Life is strange, is all I can say.

The person I knew wasn't a close friend but was friends with my friends and have done stuff together. He and I were also the drummers in our jazz band in high school. He ended up shooting himself and died in the hospital. I have asked my self the same question OP. I didn't know how to feel. It feels surreal and still does 6 years later. I also never had any close relatives die in my family.

>>18115914
>tfw I killed an high school friend.

>>18115914
Best friend hung himself the next day after I saw him. Apparently he'd been planning it for a few weeks and did it just before we started senior year. It was a surreal feeling when I called his house the next day to see if he wanted to hang out again before we had to go back to school but his mother just stepped away from the phone, said "you tell him" and his dad told me what happened. Honestly reality didn't really hit me until the wake when I saw his body.

What did you need advice on though OP? Coping?

>>18116407

jeez. sorry to hear that man. I feel the same way. its just surreal. The fact that it was a freak accident makes me wonder if it could happen to me or any of my family members today, tomorrow... I never had these thoughts before

>>18116453

that is terrible. I'm sorry you had to go through that. my situation isn't nearly as bad, I won't be going to the wake/funeral because its on the other side of the country, maybe that is a good thing.

I'm not really having a hard time coping, I'm just kind of blown away I guess, like the anon up top said its just surreal. She was such a good person, they both died instantly in a freak accident

I guess I just wanted to know if anyone else had ever felt the same.

I feel like I should have tried to talk to her more and stay in contact after school... now I can't.

Its just making me reevaluate everything. I never felt this way when my grand parents died because it was expected. this? it came out of nowhere. to the last person that deserved it. life really is strange.

I just don't know how to feel

I found my best friend (who lived with me at the time, long story) hanging from a tree one day after school. And my friends brother was stabbed and killed over a drunken argument in grade 12.

So yeah, on top of quite a few other friends I know who committed suicide at an early age it's definitely something i'm accompany to

>>18116558
>I won't be going to the wake/funeral because its on the other side of the country, maybe that is a good thing.
Probably a good thing. Seeing the body shook me a little, other people just cried and stepped outside.

Honestly immediately after I reevaluated a lot of things and tried to see people more often. Things went back to business as usual a few weeks later but then a few more people died in accidents or similar ways to my friend, so it all reset. Since then I've been a bit more indifferent about death and also unsure of how to react about it.

A friend of mine died of heroin overdose a few years after high school. That's as close as it gets for me. I think most of us saw it coming.

He died in august and we live in Arizona. It's miserably hot and a little humid here that time of year. Every august around the date he died I always think about him being on the streets strung out on H and dying. What a terrible way to go.