Why? Why does it happen?

Knuckles Dawson · Post by **Knuckles Dawson** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:53 pm

Why do good people die?

I just got off the phone, my aunt in Edmonton died yesterday. It was from a brain tumor.......She was still in her 30s, had two kids who, daughter Jessica (4) and son Lindsay (8). The funeral's this weekend, and I'll probably be either driving or flying up with my mom. She was my mom's sister-in-law. Art and Leslie were married for about 13 years now, or so. Things were a little shaky recently, but it all in all was pretty good. She was great person, she taught me how to raise a single eyebrow when I was a small kid. She had the whole world in front of her and could do anything.

I can't even think of what to say, I'm just staring at my keyboard, in shock...I mean, we found out about the tumor a couple months ago, but they were gonna treat it with surgery, and she was supposed to be fine..It was scheduled for late March...The last time I saw her she was doing fine...

Why her? Why someone like her? She was going places. She had a future.

Why?

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:17 pm

Oh, geez, I don't know what to say. I'm very sorry this had to happen to someone so close to you.
~Neo

aso · Post by **aso** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 2:25 pm

I'm... sorry to hear that, KD.

I haven't had anyone terribly close to me pass away... I did have an acquaintance I met a few times die some time back. The news wasn't so much shocking as surprising, and it took me a bit to accept the fact that the last time I had seen him, which I barely remember even now, was truly the last time.

I have one or two of his watches now, as a sort of memento of his passing. I can see that this person was a lot closer to you, though. Hope you'll get through all right.

Protodude · Post by **Protodude** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:47 pm

That sucks. I'm sorry to hear about that.

Knuckles Dawson · Post by **Knuckles Dawson** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:12 pm

Thank you for your condolences, they are appreciated greatly.

Yeah, it's pretty rough. I honestly don't know how it's gonna end up with her family and everything. It must be so hard for the kids.

Post by **Popcorn** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:28 pm

More importantly, why don't bad people die?

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 9:09 pm

Only the good die young. The reverse is also true.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 1:12 pm

Case in point; a girl from my high school class died from complications with a routine operation. An unknown allergy to a certain kind of tranquiliser or something. She was beautiful, funny, sweet and kind, and at age 16 she was way, way too young to go. I still miss her.

I'm sorry for your loss, KD. Best wishes to you and your family.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:28 pm

Zeta wrote:Only the good die young. The reverse is also true.

You mean the Young are the ones that kill themselves through swallowing a frisbee whole?

chix0rgirl · Post by **chix0rgirl** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:01 am

KD, I'm really sorry for your loss. :( My grandpa died over winter break, and my aunt's dying from terminal cancer back in Taiwan right now, and my grandma's suffering depression from all that at once (and she's 90), so I kind of know what you're going through. I also sound like a horrific sob story. :(

I don't know why all this happens. Wish I did.

Dark Crow · Post by **Dark Crow** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:38 am

Not wanting to sound cold hearted, but it happens because it can. That's life.

CE · Post by CE » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:50 am

It's quite simple, really. If only bad people died, then the world would become a happy place, full of peace and love.

God can't allow that to happen, it would remove all need for him!

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:58 pm

God secretly has an inferiority complex.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:17 pm

I feel sorry for you, KD. But look at the bright side: in spiritism (or whatever it's called in the U.S.), every death a spirit has in corporal bodies is a step further in the spiritual evolution, depending on that person's life. If a people was "bad", he/she doesn't goes to Hell, but the evolution is deferred and he/she will need to have more reincarnations. In your aunt's case, if she was really a good person as you say, then she took a huge step forward to complete peace (or even, she has reached it now!).
Remember this, people: God has a plan for everything.

(Wow, I hope I had written right. I would hate to start a misunderstanding in this kind of topic.)

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:40 pm

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:10 pm

Uh, I don't think reincarnation is that popular of a belief here.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:21 pm

...like that matters. The important thing is, what the hell did Cara just say?

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:23 pm

That he just made up his own religion on the spot?

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:59 pm

He's just incoherent enough to make a good religious leader.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:28 am

Buddhism, I believe.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:11 am

Will their symbol be a hippy or a strangely self satisfied fat dude?
My lack of spelling does not bode well for my testing.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:09 am

The fat dude. He's self satisfied because the whole world's a joke and he's the only one that ever got it.

Post by **Delphine** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:43 am

I was gonna say Buddhism, but then Cara mentioned God, and Budhism doesn't... I mean... arrrrrg.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:06 pm

Sounded more like Hinduism to me.

Post by **Delphine** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:31 pm

I need to study Hiduism more before I can agree/disagree.