So, A friend of mine died in a motorcycle wreck

[SsM]

I'ts been a long time since I saw him last.. Probably HS graduation 6 years ago..


I'm still left with a feeling of partial emptiness... I haven't seen or spoken to him in years and yet I still feel ... I don't know


I know what the feeling is.. It's sadness but alot of anger is mixed in with it.. I haven't had a friend die SINCE I was in high school..

 

[Ghostvirus]

Bummer. Sorry to hear that.

 

[LeperMessiah]

Hey dude,
I'm really sorry to hear that, I know its a hard time, and I wish you all the best.

 

[Cunning Stunts]

Damn, dude, that sucks. I know the feeling:

A girl on my cheerleading team in high school committed suicide a year after my graduation, and shortly after that, I heard about a dude on the basketball team she and I cheered for together died in a motorcycle wreck (I believe he was illegally passing someone, and hit a car head-on).

It's kind of weird... Even if you don't know the person that well, that odd feeling you get inside. It kind of sucks knowing someone, then hearing they died, especially at such a young age.

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

I'ts been a long time since I saw him last.. Probably HS graduation 6 years ago..


I'm still left with a feeling of partial emptiness... I haven't seen or spoken to him in years and yet I still feel ... I don't know


I know what the feeling is.. It's sadness but alot of anger is mixed in with it.. I haven't had a friend die SINCE I was in high school..

I went through the same thing. A friend of mine died on a motorcycle as well. It really sucks because I feel a bit of anger with him a long with the grief. He always made jokes about racing people, and he was 23 or 24 with a beautiful wife and 2 kids.

He literally caused his own death at 3 am trying to go b/w 2 big rigs. He lost his balance a bit and crashed directly in the front of one of the trucks. The driver tried to stop, but ended up running right over him and my friend was decapitated.

It is very hard at first, I even experienced nightmares envisioning the accident. A year after, his wife struggles with blaming him for careless actions while still loving him for the person he was away from motor vehicles.

I know it is extreme, but at times I feel motorcycles are so dangerous maybe they should be outlawed from public streets. I know it isn't fair to those that do practice safety, but more and more I see young guys pushing their limits and taking chances in them :-/

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

It's not just young guys that press their luck with motorcycles, it's older men and women too. The main danger with motorcycles is the fact that unlike cars you do not have the buffer of a sturdy frame around you. This is what I fear about motorcycles, and especially if I was the passenger.

 

[Cunning Stunts]

... Nobody ever really doubted that.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I hate to hear that dude. I had a friend from way back commit suicide a few years ago. Even though we'd not spoken in years I always wondered why he enver came to me for help, I would'e been willing but I guess he didn't know that.

In any case, my condolences.

 

[Drakon]

It's unsettling and it always will be.

Roundabout when I first joined the forums, I had made a post similar to this. A real good friend of mine from High School died in a car accident. His brain was basically severed in half. It's hard to imagine these people you know that were full of life and aspirations are now just rotting away in a pine box. It goes to show you how easily life can be gone.

 

[SsM]

I think its hitting my sister harder than myself...

A little over a year ago two crotch rockets slammed into her car... One's face splattered all over the passenger side of her car and the other bolted like 30 feet...

I'm upset but my sister knew him just as well as I did and she still hasn't gotten over that accident so this has to be hitting her hard.

 

[Drakon]

Ouch, sorry.

 

[SsM]

Yeah, I think she still wakes up screaming sometimes from nightmares about it... Sometimes she will randomly burst into tears

It sucks because there's absolutely nothing we(my family) can do about it except comfort her when we can.. Insurance is paying for her therapy but I don't think it's something you get over for a long time.. if you can ever even get over it it still has to leave you scarred.

 

[SuBe]

I know how you feel SSM. I had a very good friend die in a Motorcycle wreck last Feb. He was a father of 5. He was one of the best people I've ever known. I feel your pain.

 

[Watson]

It's sad to see how many people have died in motorcycle accidents . I too recently lost a friend in motorcycle accident. I've known him ever since high school. It was awful and weird and it doesn't stop being weird. But aside for being there for his friends and family, you just have to keep on living your life. Personally, it showed me I need to take advantage of every day I've got.

If you go to the funreal, tell his family to that he was a really great friend and you'll miss him. It's always nice for the family to see how loved thier child was. Someone gave me that advice before my friend's funreal and it was the best advice I got.

 

[Anita18]

It's kind of weird... Even if you don't know the person that well, that odd feeling you get inside. It kind of sucks knowing someone, then hearing they died, especially at such a young age.

Same here. 3 years after high school graduation, I heard that someone in my class died in a terrible car crash. I didn't know him that well, but still! Nobody's "supposed" to die so young. It's just sad.

Motorcycles can look fun, but I'm always nervous when I'm driving around them. Always let them have A LOT of room if I can help it. Once we hit sudden gridlock on a highway, and a motorcyclist behind me was NOT looking when I braked. I saw him not brake in time in my rearview, and winced when he finally realized and made a "HOLY #$(*%!" face. Luckily he slowed down enough that he only made a "plunk" sound when he hit my car.

I elected not to stop and report the accident, because my car was totally fine, but he really could have hurt himself. Like, flying over my car kind of incident. Geez, I hope he learned his lesson!

 

[SsM]

Motorcycles don't worry me as much as the crotch rockets do.


The people that ride Hogs around here are MUCH more careful than the idiots in the crotch rockets.. The sheriff told my sister that they estimated by the tire tracks that one of the riders that hit her car were going upwards 100 MPH.

 

[Cunning Stunts]

Same here. 3 years after high school graduation, I heard that someone in my class died in a terrible car crash. I didn't know him that well, but still! Nobody's "supposed" to die so young. It's just sad.

Motorcycles can look fun, but I'm always nervous when I'm driving around them. Always let them have A LOT of room if I can help it. Once we hit sudden gridlock on a highway, and a motorcyclist behind me was NOT looking when I braked. I saw him not brake in time in my rearview, and winced when he finally realized and made a "HOLY #$(*%!" face. Luckily he slowed down enough that he only made a "plunk" sound when he hit my car.

I elected not to stop and report the accident, because my car was totally fine, but he really could have hurt himself. Like, flying over my car kind of incident. Geez, I hope he learned his lesson!

Yeah, I always let them do whatever they want to get as much distance away from me as they can, as I don't want that same thing happening.

In high school' my friend's parents were on a bike right down the road from my house... A girl blew a stop-light, and the bike hit her car, killing the father and putting the mother into a coma for a few days. The mother awoke and had no clue her husband was gone, and they didn't tell her until a week later.

On another creepier note, my dad bought a motorcycle a few summers ago, and not one week later (this was around the same time as my friend's dad's death), there was a three-vehicle accident eight miles from my house. The car was someone fine, the wound up standing straight up, against a tree, and the motorcyclist was decapitated. My father said he drove by the site, and saw the chalk outline of his body, and a dotted-line leading to a circle, where his head apparently fell.

All these stories are ruining every desire I've ever had to ride a motorcycle.

It's unsettling and it always will be.

Roundabout when I first joined the forums, I had made a post similar to this. A real good friend of mine from High School died in a car accident. His brain was basically severed in half. It's hard to imagine these people you know that were full of life and aspirations are now just rotting away in a pine box. It goes to show you how easily life can be gone.

You said it better than I could ever have. I've always thought about this, especially about my cheerleading teammate that killed herself. Having known her (though not too well, still though, I almost asked her to Homecoming too, but I chickened out) and been with her throughout cheer practices, since she was the only girl who was near my height (she was an inch taller), we got paired up a lot... It was really off-setting to me when that realization of everything I once knew about that girl is gone. Forever.

 

[SsM]

It's unsettling and it always will be.

Roundabout when I first joined the forums, I had made a post similar to this. A real good friend of mine from High School died in a car accident. His brain was basically severed in half. It's hard to imagine these people you know that were full of life and aspirations are now just rotting away in a pine box. It goes to show you how easily life can be gone.

Yeah, He was a basketball prodigy, He probably would have gone pro.

 

[Matt]

I'm sorry for your loss SSM. I'd imagine a bit of the anger would be at yourself for not maintaining a closer friendship, but I don't think your friend would want that. Just use this as a learning experience of how precious and short life is and make all the time you have with the people important to you really count. And remember...death is but the next great adventure.

 

[zahanbil]

I'm so sorry, S.

 

[Punisher Rising]

Sorry about your friend, SsM I hope he's at peace where he is.