Many of you commented on my blog posts last month concerning the crappy New Year our neighborhood was having. Jayme works with our neighbor who lost his 18 year old daughter New Year's Eve. (We found out at her funeral that her 18th birthday was the day before!)
Since she died at a party where there was a lot of alcohol being consumed and she wasn't even supposed to be there, everyone kind of assumed she died of alcohol poisoning. There was also some concern that she may have taken some other type of drug or even been slipped something. Lab results from an autopsy take several weeks to come in (not like on CSI) and they met with the medical examiner yesterday.
Her death has been ruled "Natural Causes" and she had no drugs or alcohol in her system! The attributing factor in her death is a condition called Myocarditis. It is the same thing that causes a young, seemingly healthy athlete to drop dead during a game or a practice.
On the one hand they are relieved that while she wasn't where she was supposed to be, at least she wasn't drinking or drugging herself to death. On the other hand, even if she had been at home in bed, she still would have died.
This news make me even more furious at the youth minister who gave her eulogy. I hope that this news will bring her grieving parents a little bit of peace, but I am sure they will never be able to fully accept or understand why their daughter was taken. I know I wouldn't.
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2 days ago
I HAVE been thinking of your neighbors... What a hard thing to deal with. I just hope she didn't suffer. What a tragedy. I guess it makes it somewhat better to know that it would have happened regardless of where she was, that it wasn't a senseless or preventable tragedy, but losing a child is losing a child. I don't see how you ever recover from that.
ReplyDeleteYoou are very right Sarah. In fact, her Mom said that she is almost glad she wasn't home when it happened because there is no way she could have recovered from finding her body; no way she could have stayed one more second in the house where her daughter died.
ReplyDeleteIt is a very difficult situation, but I hope they find some solace in the revelation that her death was not the result of bad behaviour.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the update. I too wondered how they were coping with such a tragic loss. I am so grateful to have a healthy 8 month old son, but scared to death at times that this could happen to us. I will continue to keep them in our prayers and hope that they find more peace in their loss. As hard as that may seem.
ReplyDeleteSo sad!
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