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Lost a Co-Worker

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Av8r3400

Gone Flyin'
I found out today that a long time, fellow employee and coworker has died over this last weekend. He wasn't really a 'friend', but an acquaintance and coworker. It made for a very melancholy day at work.

He was under treatment for pneumonia and apparently through the fog of the meds thought that he could go outside for a walk Saturday after a spat with his girlfriend.

He didn't return home. He was found this morning. He was a very fit, active, outdoorsy guy of only 54 years of age.




Truly makes you understand how fragile life can be.
 
There's an old saying that "every man's death diminishes me."

He was a part of your life, even though you might have only known him passing in the hallways. He was also a reminder that time marches by for us all.

Do something to celebrate life. Break a habit, go for a walk, call an old friend to make amends.

Don't let a man's life be just a chapter in book quickly forgotten. Let it stir you to some positive action.
 
Last year was a tough year where I work, couple of employees but a terrible number of moms and dads but saddest of all a couple of sons. Don't care who you are, having a friend bury one of his kids just ain't right.
 
My thoughts are prayers are with you. May not have been really close to you but close enough to make you think.
 
That's tough. Even barely knowing somebody that has passed hurts.

We were just talking about this today at the plant. There were 5 of us in the lab. All 5 want to be cremated, and we want the funeral service to be similar to what they do in New Orleans - a little bit of sadness, but then break into a joyful party to celebrate the lives we led. I hope to be roasted in more ways then one when I leave.
 
We all know people who are fixtures in our lives. Not really close, but they're there. Similar to a tree in someone's yard which you pass by on your way to work, the store, or church. One day, you are driving by and see that that tree has been cut down. The landscape has been changed.
Thus has the landscape of your life been changed by the loss of this person. Someone may be hired to replace him, but yet, he'll never be replaced.
I am sorry for your loss.
 
Trakternut said:
We all know people who are fixtures in our lives. Not really close, but they're there. Similar to a tree in someone's yard which you pass by on your way to work, the store, or church. One day, you are driving by and see that that tree has been cut down. The landscape has been changed.
Thus has the landscape of your life been changed by the loss of this person. Someone may be hired to replace him, but yet, he'll never be replaced.
I am sorry for your loss.
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Monte, that was brilliant:smile:
It's never easy to lose someone who'd been a constant in your world, whether you loved them or not.
Av8r,I'm sorry to hear it.
Peace.
 
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