One of my brother's best friends was killed in a vehical accident...
By missybal
@missybal (4490)
United States
January 15, 2008 5:38pm CST
My brother had to go to his first funeral for a friend. This boy was only 18 years old and he was driving a truck and he was going way too fast. He always drove like that. They don't even know what caused him to go off the road but he crashed into a house and kinda bounced off and into a tree. He was dead on impact. For my brother it really opened his eyes because he was almost in that truck with him. He was asked to go with him but my brother didn't like how fast he drove and very rarely would go with him. So I guess this is one of the times it was good he said no. You couldn't get this kid to slow down. His life only just begun and my brother went through all this depression for it. Then to make it worse they made it out like it was an accident and no fault of the kid at the funeral, when I feel they should have said something because all his buddies that were there are just as careless and need a heads up. My brother is friends with all the wrong people, and this kid was also a trouble maker. Not necessary a bad person but alway careless and hurt people in the process. They called him a free spirit at the funeral.
Then after the funeral his friends had a bunch of drinking parties all in a row in memory of the kid. My brother actually got yelled at by his friends for missing one of them because he decided he drank too much at the last one and wanted a night off. It wasn't really like they were talking about what happened or anything. They just used the death of a person as a good excuss to party. It's so sad. I wouldn't be surprised if all the brother's friends end up dead during the next 10 years. I hope my brother wakes up and starts living his life right because we've already had some close calls where we thought he was going to be dead. Thank god he didn't get in the truck.
Did anyone else have a close call? Please add what you think of how kids react to the lose of a friend.
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4 responses
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
16 Jan 08
I lost one of my best friends to a car accident at the same age. He was not a trouble maker though. He was not driving, he was in the back seat. There were 4 of my friends in the car, he was killed instantly. They hit a couple of trees, big rocks and rolled. The driver another friend, was passing another car and his tire hit some slush on the road.
My friends and I all grieved differently. We did drink though. We drank to get away from the pain. It didn't work. Adults do the same thing. Some of us made bad decisions after the accident, while we were all trying to make sense of it and deal with it. Aside from drinking a few times, I didn't do too much. I tend to hide away from everyone when I am hurting. I just want to be left alone. That is what my friends would get irritated with. They all thought I shouldn't be alone, but really...that is what I wanted and needed at the time.
@sbeauty (5865)
• United States
16 Jan 08
While we were in college, one of my husband's high school friends was killed in a car accident. He and a brother and sister he went to Bible college with were in one car, and a newlywed couple was in the other car. The other car slid on an icy highway. All five were killed. The friend was an only child, and the brother and sister were the only children of a widow. All we could do was wonder why something like this would happen to crush 5 young lives and destroy the lives of the parents.
@cosylvia (399)
• China
16 Jan 08
hello,so sad to hear about this,so wish some fast ,,pls slow down for themself and family,,wish you have a good day
@lorvenking (15)
• India
16 Jan 08
this is because of their immature behaviour towards an incident. if we are at a place where an incident happens, our mind and heart will blow out based on our sensitivity. some people feel it as their personal and some people will consider it as only an incident in daytoday life. now a days in the world as terrorism is threatening the world, deaths became so common. most of the incident in the world became places for more deaths. it has became a natural thing in the minds of the people who doesn't care for importance of life. abnormal behaviour of the people giving this kind of action towards a incident either it is an accident or other.
