Classmate Deaths
I don’t keep in touch with very many people from high school or college, but I do occasionally hear things about old classmates from time to time. In the past couple of days, I heard some terrible news: two former high school classmates passed away recently. One was suffering from bipolar disorder and deliberately jumped from a moving vehicle, while the other suffered fatal complications during childbirth.
Even though I didn’t know either of these classmates very well when we were in school together and even though I never kept in touch with them, the news of their deaths has shaken me quite a bit. I know things like this are bound to happen, but still… it’s kind of strange to be at that age where deaths, terminal illnesses, and other tragedies start to strike. I guess it’s even more jolting because when I last saw these people, we were 18 and ready to take on the world.
So much can change in 15 years that it feels like high school was a lifetime ago.
RIP, fellow Huskies.