Deceased Friends and Family

I could not really find a name for this thread, but it is a place where one may say a few words about some they knew that have died. One of the people in my class has recently died, and some here may have the same situation.
Lucid Shadow Triple Seven...

Gosh... I don't really realise how bad you must feel, I can just try to think about it... was he or she a friend of yours?

Some guy who graduated with my class wrecked his motorcycle and died.

Cue hundreds of copy pasta myspace bulletins from people who never even talked to the guy.

When I was in middle school a kid died of some kind of disease. We had a fundraiser for the family because their insurance coverage was dropped because of it for some reason. I don't remember much about it, and since it happened I don't think anyone else does either. Nobody really knew the kid.

A more vivid memory, someone was killed down by a car wash place near where I live. He went to my rival high school. It was pretty sad, to see how people reacted to that was different. He was in the paper and was greatly remembered by everyone including his girlfriend (that must be horrible for her).

Two very different stories, same thing.

I don't really ever feel much sympathy for a stranger who died, espically if their story is being whored around by others. Seriously, if a loved one close to has died, share the sympathy and misery with those who knew this person, not to everybody else. A person cares what you feel, people don't.

when I was in the ninth grade, a seventh grade girl was killed when her mother (a security guard to the school we went to) wrecked her car.

She had our yearbook dedicated to her memory.

and she was only 13

I remember in 5th grade they announce a kid over the intercom named Christopher had died in a car crash. Somehow the name seem familiar and then on the news the next morning the showed a picture of him and I realized that he was my best friend in 3rd grade who had moved to another track so I hadn't seen him since. (My school had 5 different tracks... it's confusing, I don't care to explain. Lets just say you kinda stay in your own track and never see anyone from other tracks.)

It was the first time anyone that close to me had died. I mean, I hadn't seen him practically since 3rd grade but it was still very sad. I think, since then, only my grandfather and my great uncle has died. My great uncle was very close to me and I was named after him so it was very sad when he died.