Tomorrow may not come...

vmaxer
vmaxer Posts: 5,117
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I just had a guy I consider a good friend pass away, without any warning. He shared a post I made on Facebook yesterday and died today, less than 24 hours later.

This breaks my heart, he was an awesome guy.
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  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    Sorry for your loss..
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Life is fragile. Enjoy the friends and family you have, don't spend so much time working, spend more time with hobbies that make you happy, don't eat fast food, the list goes on.

    Sorry for your and his families loss.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,783
    Sorry man
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  • polk500
    polk500 Posts: 1,171
    Sorry to hear about the sudden lost of your Friend.

    Roger
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  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    Hard to believe he was ok yesterday and gone today. We just never know, live life to the fullest, may not be around tomorrow.
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    Sunfire TGP 5
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    PS Audio GCPH phono pre
    Sunfire CG 200 X 5
    Sunfire CG Sig 405 X 5
    OPPO BDP-83 SE
    SDA SRS 1.2TL Sonicaps and Mills
    Ctr CS1000p
    Sur - FX1000 x 4
    SUB - SVS PB2-Plus

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    Onkyo TX-DS898
    GFA 555
    Yamaha DVD-S1800BL/SACD
    Ft - SDA 1C

    Not being used:
    RTi 38's -4
    RT55i's - 2
    RT25i's -2, using other 2 in shop
    LSI 15's
    CSi40
    PSW 404
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  • gce
    gce Posts: 2,158
    Sorry for your loss man. It's a very short life we have, enjoy it while you can.
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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,671
    Sorry for your loss. Prayers go out to his family & friends. Hang in there
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,121
    **** changes so quickly. This is more proof that you should carpe diem
    So sorry for your loss . . .
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,752
    In the blink of an eye......

    Very sorry to hear about your friend.
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,685
    Sorry to hear about your friend...

    It always seems like the awesome, good ones leave us too quickly.
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    Very sorry to hear about your friend. It's terrifying how uncertain tomorrow is.
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • WagnerRC
    WagnerRC Posts: 2,162
    sorry for your loss. work to live not live to work.
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  • damnusernames
    damnusernames Posts: 84
    Sorry for your loss. Life is unpredictable. Enjoy every bit of it.
    Take a moment for yourself
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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    Very sorry to hear that....same thing happened to myself a couple years back..hits close to home...and really is a time for reflection...
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    My condolences to you and your friend's family. I'm very sorry for your loss Vmaxer.
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,065
    Sorry for your loss. Life is too short, find good in every day.
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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    sorry for your loss vmax - reminded of the Breaker Morant line - "live every day as if it were your last, for one day you are sure to be right".
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    Ugh, sorry man. While they're all bad, the surprises are the worst. I had a great friend, young guy at 27 no less, pass away late last year. It still gets me down at times. When it gets me down, think back to the hilarious times we had together, and think "thanks for the laughs brother, I'll see you again one day."
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,222
    Very sad. It really causes you to take a good hard look at your life and see what's important. As Garth Brooks sang, "If tomorrow never comes..." Sorry for your loss, man. Hang in there.
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    Sorry for your loss my friend, nothing ever prepares you for something like this even if you been though it before! Hang onto the good thoughts and times and let it carry you thru. Having known someone is worth the pain of the loss.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    That is tough. I still remember the day my Dad lost his best friend. I was 8 YO.
    Sorry for you loss and theirs.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    My condolences.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    Good Friends are hard to come by, sorry you lost one.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,586
    edited April 2015
    My best friend died last year, he was 31. Liver cancer, hereditary it is presumed. Came out of nowhere... One day he was running marathons, 6 months later he was short of breath and winded just going up a block.

    I will never forget that. He and I were like brothers. We are both doctors and we never saw it coming.

    Sorry for your loss Vmaxer So sorry man.
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  • nspindel
    nspindel Posts: 5,343
    Very sorry for your loss. RIP
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Joey_V wrote: »
    My best friend died last year, he was 31. Liver cancer, hereditary it is presumed. Came out of nowhere... One day he was running marathons, 6 months later he was short of breath and winded just going up a block.

    I will never forget that. He and I were like brothers. We are both doctors and we never saw it coming.

    Sorry for your loss Vmaxer So sorry man.

    I'm 31. Yikes. Hopefully this anxiety goes away quickly. I hate thinking about dying, seriously scary, though inevitable. Usually it happens when I'm trying to fall asleep for some reason.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,586
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Joey_V wrote: »
    My best friend died last year, he was 31. Liver cancer, hereditary it is presumed. Came out of nowhere... One day he was running marathons, 6 months later he was short of breath and winded just going up a block.

    I will never forget that. He and I were like brothers. We are both doctors and we never saw it coming.

    Sorry for your loss Vmaxer So sorry man.

    I'm 31. Yikes. Hopefully this anxiety goes away quickly. I hate thinking about dying, seriously scary, though inevitable. Usually it happens when I'm trying to fall asleep for some reason.

    I'm 32.

    How do you think I feel? I lost my sense of immortality once that happened. And my guard went down, I used to be cheap as hell.

    We can't take this with us... Enjoy life bro
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  • Moose68Bash
    Moose68Bash Posts: 3,843
    My sympathy and condolences are with you, vmaxer.

    My mother, before she died, always told me:

    "People don't die at our convenience.
    "Death is a part of life.
    "We have to bury our dead."

    She believed death was an essential factor in making life valuable. She was the youngest -- by a full 12 years -- of thirteen children. She grew up seeing her elder siblings, and even some of their older children (her cousins) die. I think her sayings above were the way she learned to cope.

    Make sure you pay your respects to your friend and his family and loved ones.

    I'm sorry.
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    Its tough when you get unexpected news like this, sorry for your loss.
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  • gurot1
    gurot1 Posts: 519
    Sorry for you loss.
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