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mnhtnbb

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13. I'm so sorry for your friend's loss.

Reply to peacebird (Original post)

Fri Mar 4, 2016, 12:20 AM

Mar 2016

My husband got a call from the daughter of a friend and colleague on Sunday evening: her father had gone to take a nap in the afternoon
and never woke up.

Sudden death like that is very unnerving. I'm so sorry.

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Just got a call from my best friend of the past 34 years. Her brother dropped dead this morning [View all] peacebird Mar 2016 OP

My sympathy to you and your friend and family. May livetohike Mar 2016 #1

Thank you, I guess we are approaching the age my mother warned me about, where too many peacebird Mar 2016 #3

That's where I'm at... TeeYiYi Mar 2016 #11

I remember two years before my mom died, that year I took her to 11 funerals..... peacebird Mar 2016 #12

So sorry to hear it. A friend of mine got the very same news this morning Lorien Mar 2016 #2

Very sobering indeed..... : ( peacebird Mar 2016 #4

Ain't that the truth. n/t easttexaslefty Mar 2016 #5

My family/friends started dying around me when I was 35, first was my Mother. Raster Mar 2016 #6

So true. SheilaT Mar 2016 #7

We are but a moment's sunlight, Wilms Mar 2016 #8

Sorry to hear it. Downwinder Mar 2016 #9

My dad managed the perfect balance. He became ill, and died 3 weeks later. peacebird Mar 2016 #10

I'm so sorry for your friend's loss. mnhtnbb Mar 2016 #13

Sorry and I send my thoughts and prayers. imanamerican63 Mar 2016 #14