Well, as I'm heading to my lunch break at work get this, turns out a friend of mine, Shawn, turned up dead. Ha, funny, was all I could think, I didn't seem to really react today. I found out that he was in a head on collision, the idiot drove stoned and tried to make a u-turn in the middle of the road, head on into a Civic going around 40 on 1st street.

It's tragic because he didn't come off as a junkie. He only got stoned or drunk every now and then, and whenever he did, he'd stay at my apartment, in order to make sure he didn't fuck up anything. The civic driver is in bad condition, so is her passenger. My pity is for them. But I can't really react. I didn't cry, I sighed, and just felt bad that I was trying to avoid Shawn so much, I've tried to help him out, as have many of my friends, but he was too headstrong to ever listen.

So, there you have it, kind of a weird set of circumstances, what can you do? I just hope the Civic victims turn out safely. Now I'm debating whether or not I should go to his funeral, if his parents decide to have one, heh.

Sorry about your loss mate.

What happens, happens mate. What can we do about it? We got to protect ourselves from incidents like this from taking a preventive measure(s).

Sorry about your loss once again and maybe it's a reason to probably stop drinking?

Who knows, i'm just stating ''preventive measures''

Reminds me of a friend I had a while back who died. His death turned up a big mystery and the details where really distorted.

Only thing was I didn't feel any emotion or whatever. Still don't and never did. But he was a good kid. Never did anything bad and stuff.

I'm still good friends with his sister, though.

If he was your friend go dude. Sorry for your lost.

Thanks, and I agree, I've definitely looked over my alcohol consumption with second thoughts, fortunately I never do drugs.

But if he had been a good friend, I would've been much sadder and shown emotion, it's happened a few times actually, the only reason I didn't now was because of it being his fault, because he was a straight up junkie, and that he almost killed two people for it. I'm only sad when I think about the way we were as kids, I mean shit, we were like bros back when we were like 15 to 18, but once college hit him, he abused his newly found freedom too much.

I think you should definatly go to his funeral, he was a friend, even if not a very good friend, even if it was someone you barely knew you should go, someone has died and a funeral pays respect for that person, he made a mistake, we all do it, unfourtunatly his mistake cost his his life and injured 2 others.

That's the thing, if his mistake ends up killing those two people, I just can't see it that way, and I don't even think his dad can either. We've spoken recently, he said finding out what his son was just killed him inside. That he died has just damaged him, but that he lied to their faces day in and day out, parties, fights, drugs, alcohol, hard drugs, he told me he doesn't know if he can throw a funeral, because apparently he barely knew the real Shawn.

sorry man I just lost someone this week as well.I miss her too. Back to your problem. Just go to his funeral unless that is not your kind of thing. Sorry mate.