Mortality

Every person mentioned here had an impact my life, in who I am. Grateful for having known them is what I strive for but grief made me start this list and is why I keep it updated.

I included the way people died because death usually makes me angry. Angry at the circumstance, angry at God, angry at myself...

Losing loved ones to death is the harshest cost of living.

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Teresa - (favorite cousin) car accident - 1978 - 25
Jimmy - (ex-boyfriend) motorcycle accident - 1981 - 22
Ada - (Tina's sister) killed by a serial murderer - 1983 - 17
Eugenia - (sister's friend) boyfriend shot her through a door at a party - 1984 - 18
Dads Mom (Margaret) - alzheimer's - 1985 - 92
Denis - (friend) cancer - 1985 - 21
Dave -(Lisa F's ex-boyfriend) suicide (grateful he didn't take his girlfriend with him)- 1985 - 23
Lucia - (best childhood friend) boyfriend decided to drive drunk after she passed out in the car (he lived) - 1986 - 23
Beth -(friend) addicted to pills - died of heart failure 1987 - 25
Barbara - (coworker) - cancer - 1995 - 42
Mom (Ann)- found out she was sick in June, died in November, Leukemia - 1997 - 61
Susie Belle/Granny (Mom's Mom)- Alzheimers - two days after Mom - 1997 - 86
Ethel (Buddy's Mom)- stroke - 1998 - 72
Bill (Brother in laws Dad) 1998 - 72
Dad (Donald) - prostate cancer - 2002 - 69
Nancy -(neighbor) cancer - 2003 - 39
Uncle Joe (Fleur's Husband)- emphysema & heart disease - 2003 - 81
Aunt Helen (Dads Sister) - heart attack - 2004 - 73
Bill Jr(brother in laws brother) cancer - 2005 - 52
Rob - (sister's friend) drug addiction/heart failure - 2005 - 50
Bruce - (family friend) car accident - 2006 - 37
Vicente' - heart attack - 2006 -54
Nehemiah -(friend) cancer - 2007 - 50
Alene (Mother-in-Law) - heart failure - 2007 - 81
Richard - ( Rick's Dad) - drove the wrong way on an interstate -2008- 75
Grace - (daughter of a coworker) - smoke inhalation - 2008 - 4
Buddy - (husband's best friend) alcohol addiction/massive heart attack - 2008 - 51
David - (brother's friend) suicide - 2008 - 48
Shirley (Lisa's Mom) - cancer - 2008 - 67
Doris (Rick's Mom) - emphysema - 2008 - 72
Matt (daughters friend) - car accident - 2008 - 18
Orin (ex-coworker) - heart attack in his garden - 2009 - 80
Rhett (ex-coworker/smoke buddy) - cancer - 2009 - 77
Bradley (ex-coworker/dj) - heart attack - 2009 - 47
Ray (ex-coworker) - cancer - 2009 - 64
Juanita (friend, ex-coworker) - leukemia 2009 - 62
Mariah (daughters friend) car accident, she was the passenger, driver lived 2011 - 20
Robbie (daughters friend ) motorcycle accident - 2011 - 22
Dewitt - (childhood neighbor)-head injury (he fell down in the hospital parking lot, just found out he had cancer)- 2012 - 52
Marvin - (Sister-in Laws life partner) kidney failure -2012- 80
John - (musician and sister's next door neighbor in 1984) - ran over walking to the bus stop - 2012-60
Robert - (Diane H's husband) massive heart attack. Died 6 years to the day of Vicente', same cause. 2012-53
Raymond - (Dennis S's dad)  cancer - (well known in political circles, had open bar during the funeral at his request) 2012 - 83
Whitney - (Mother of a girl who has always called me Aunt Karen) - fell off her horse -2013 - 48
Mary - (Husband's younger sister) colon cancer - 2013 - 57
Hailey - (Friend of my daughter since they were 5) hydroplaned on I-75 -2013 -22
Teri - (Ex-coworker) breast cancer 2013 - 52 (she died same day as Hailey)
Sandy - (Husbands Older Sister) lung cancer  2013 - 65 (Thanksgiving Day)
Anne - (Daughter's childhood friend) suicide  2013 - 21 (Funeral on Christmas Eve)
Danny C- (friend from high school) massive heart attack 2014 - 51
Miriam - (Brother in Law's Mom) alzheimer's/stroke  2014 - 85
Velma - (Lisa C's Sister) cancer 2014 - 62
Leila Mae - (Michael V's Mother) cancer 2014-63
Phil - (Sister's friend) drug overdose 2014 - 52
Ed - (Daughters friend) suicide 2014 - 35
Thomas - (David H's Brother)  pneumonia 2014 - 57