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Have any of your childhood friends/classmates died yet?

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I just got word that one of my childhood friends died last week.
I've not seen him in years so that news doesn't affect me that much.
I feel more weird out knowing that 2 guys from kindergarten already kicked the bucket.
But then again they both were idiots, one thought he could outrace an 18 wheeler and one overdosed

Still, it makes you think about life.
What's your count?
 
Yeah, a guy I went to high school with died a couple years after we graduated. He was selling drugs, some dudes showed up to his house to collect, he tried to scare them off, and they shot him four times in the chest. Right on his parents' lawn. Awful stuff.
 
Two of my classmates (1 from elementary, 1 from college) died. Both from traffic accidents. One was riding with a friend on a motorcycle, and they ran of the road into a tree. The other was a truck driver, and he got crushed by another truck that crossed the lane into oncoming traffic.
 
No, but one of my childhood classmate had it rough. Her Ex husband killed himself with both of their child. I don't think she ever recovered.
 
Not that I am aware of. But, I didn't really stay close with many friends from public school or high school except for one.
 
Lessso friends. I know people who were my age who died though, yes.

Plenty who should have but have gotten by and I'm always hoping they don't.
^Should have as in I'm lucky they aren't. :/

Death sucks.
 
Yeah, a few months after I graduated two kids from my class died in an ATV accident.

And then a couple years later one of my best childhood friends committed suicide, we grew apart before that, but it still hit me hard.
 
Oh, also, I wasn't close to either of them, but I knew Michael Hernandez and Jaime Gough a bit in middle school. I knew Michael a bit better since we both played the saxophone in the school band. He was always a quiet, unassuming kid, so needless to say, it was crazy when I heard that he'd stabbed his friend Jaime 40 times in the school bathroom. From what I heard, they were both planning on killing another kid, but Jaime ultimately didn't want to do it, so Michael killed him instead.
 
Lets see:

A kid on my basketball team died in a motorcycle accident.

Car accident

Suicide.

Brain aneurysm

Brain Cancer

Heart condition (he died in his sleep)

Two drug related deaths.

One my my best friends in high school got so drunk and choked on his own puke. (This one still hurts to think about. While I did lose contact with him I did hang out with him almost every day for about 3 or 4 years)
 
yea. Had a classmate in college kill himself after his parents made him transfer colleges.

A highschool classmate died five or so years after graduation, he wrapped his car around a tree or something and it caught on fire and he couldnt get out.

Sad stuff both times.
 
I didn't know him too well, but while I was in sixth grade someone two years ahead of me drowned while fishing at a nearby lake. Apparently he would go fishing by himself every weekend and sit on the concrete ledge at the end of the lake, and one time he fell in and he didn't know how to swim. The only other person at the lake at the time also didn't know how to swim, and by the time she was able to get emergency services there it was too late.

I remember going fishing there a couple weekends with one of my friends, but we never saw him there. I really wish we were there when it happened so we could have helped him.
 
A few, actually, I think. Couple of years ago (not sure how it came up) it seems one guy from middle school who was one of the 'cool' kids that was a total flirt was shot and killed by police when he went after them with a butcher's knife during a domestic call. :/ Another I 'dated' in middle school was killed by a drunk driver. Both scary and sad to learn about them when they happen.
 
I don't know about early classmates since I lost contact with them after school. I had a babysitter whose abusive boyfriend murdered her though.
 
Had to bury one of my classmates 2 weeks ago. He was riding with a guy and his gf who was high on lowertabs and puff. They crashed and car Had split in half. The driver was the only survivor
 
One of my closest friends was killed years ago. We were supposed to meet at our old primary school to play soccer with a few other guys. I was waiting for my dad to get home so he could give me a lift, but my friend lived just a bit further up the mountain from the school, so he was cycling. On the way down, he stupidly shot through a crossroads and was smashed from the side by a 4x4. He flew twenty feet through the air and landed on his head. The next day, the life support machine was turned off. He was 14 and I was 15. It scarred me for years afterwards but I'm over it now. At least he didn't suffer any pain.

Edit: Oh, another guy died while we were still in primary school. He lived on a farm and decided to do donuts on a forklift. It toppled over and crushed him. Also, another guy a year ahead of me was messing around one day with his friend, and jumped out of his 2nd-storey bedroom window onto his trampoline. He shot through the air and landed upside down on the ground, breaking his neck.
 
My closest high school friend, who I was fairly estranged from at the time of his death, died after complications from an infection in his heart and a stroke. That was brutal.

Another guy from my class who I wasn't all that close to died from cancer. I think there were a few others. It's how I knew I was getting old.
 
I wouldn't call him a friend, but someone that dated a friend of mine in high school hanged himself in his first semester of college. That who's-the-first-person-in-our-graduating-class-to-die question resolved itself pretty quickly.
 
From high school, yes, a number of people from my class have died of both natural causes and at least two being murdered, but both of those were gang/drug related. From college, friends have died, a mix of reasons... the majority either from natural causes (disease, cancer, sickness) but also some from self-inflicted (e.g., drugs, drinking, or doing something stupid while on drugs or drinking). A friend and classmate of my fiancee's was the victim of a high profile murder by one of her students about a year or so ago, which was really awful... I didn't know her though.

I'm at the age now when many of my childhood/high school friend's parents are regularly getting into their 70s, and so the biggest change is getting used to friend's parents dying. Eventually it'll come for all of our parents and then us -- hopefully in that order.
 
Yes. One suddenly dropped dead. Most emotionally taxing funeral I've been to.
 
From my year at high school, we've lost at least 9 and I'm 'only' 35.

A few overdoses.
A couple of suicides
Some illness/cancer
and some car accidents including one poor lassie who got trapped and burned alive in her car when it got rear ended.
 
I've known about 20 people from school that died in the past 5 years.

Mostly drugs. One or two were shot

I'm only 26. That number seems way too fuckin high
 
A handful. I was homeschooled, but a couple kids from the homeschooling circle I was a part of have passed away. One guy, whose girlfriend I knew better than him, unfortunately killed himself.

Another girl that I graduated with (Yes, there are Homeschool graduation ceremonies) was unfortunately the victim of a stray bullet accidentally fired-off in her church. Some of you may have seen it in the news, it was kind of a crazy story.

Fuck Guns.
 
None of my immediate circle but as the years have gone on I've had a few classmates from K-12 that died, despite being a fairly small school. The couple I can remember are:

One girl was murdered Freshman or Sophomore year of college

A friend from cross country / track died while teaching in Africa or the Middle East

Another died in a car accident

I know there are more but I moved a few states away right after graduating high school and haven't been back since very much, especially since my parents moved to another state shortly after that as well.

The only one I ever had more than a few passing conversations with was the friend I'd run with. He was a good guy and I never heard what actually happened to him, pretty much just the details I posted above so I have no idea if he was killed or just got sick. I only found out when I went to look up how some friends I had lost contact with were doing, I'd expected to find him with a wife and kids or something, instead I found out he'd been dead a few years.
 
Some. One not very close friend died while we were still in high school. His sister was in my graduating class. To this day I don't know how she and her family were able to cope, but she's a friendly, warm, wonderful person. It's been nearly 20 years of course, but still.
 
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