Another friend of mine has died

cashmoney · #1 05-16-2005, 12:58 PM

So I found out Friday that one of my friends from back home died Friday. He owned a gym in Palm Beach and we went to highschool together, he was 2 years older than me. His younger brother and I played baseball together. Friday he was in his gym, working out, and bench pressed 800lbs. He got it once and then did it again. After that he got up walked around in a circle for a few seconds, said he was dizzy, sat down on the bench and then dropped dead.

Come to find out something happened in his head from the pressure of all that weight and it killed him. I don't know how many of you work out hard, but please rethink about doing stupid shit like that. The human body isnt ment to do stuff like that. It doesnt matter how much juice you're on.

It seems like people are dying all around. Within the last 12 months Ive had another cousin die and now 3 friends. Within my life, that I know of, Ive had 9 friends and 2 cousins who's lives ended early while they were in their teens/20s. Either by accident or being murdered.

winnieb · #2 05-16-2005, 01:20 PM

Very sad-- sorry about your friend.

KillarneyRose · #3 05-16-2005, 01:21 PM

I'm sorry, Craig.

KSigkid · #4 05-16-2005, 01:26 PM

I'm sorry for your loss

mmcat · #5 05-16-2005, 03:49 PM

{{{{{huggles craig}}}}}

FSUZeta · #6 05-16-2005, 04:31 PM

dear cash, i am so sorry to hear about your friend.

DeltAlum · #7 05-16-2005, 04:40 PM

Sorry Cash. Doesn't seem fair, does it?

Peaches-n-Cream · #8 05-16-2005, 04:52 PM

I'm very sorry for your loss, Craig.

Munchkin03 · #9 05-16-2005, 05:02 PM

I'm very sorry. I don't talk about it here, but my best friend from college died suddenly back in September. It's a tough thing to go through.

Best wishes.

epchick · #10 05-16-2005, 05:14 PM

I'm so sorry Cash!!! My prayers and condolences go out to his family and all his friends!!

cashmoney · #11 05-16-2005, 05:29 PM

Thanks, guys. It's just kind of scary.....it's like I'm kind of wondering when it's going to be me next.

I can't explain it, but I know I shouldve died on 3 different occassions now but I'm still here.

CUGreekgirl · #12 05-16-2005, 06:32 PM

sorry for your loss Craig...

We had a local highschooler die in a wreck on Friday, he would have graduated this coming Saturday. My friends and I were talking about everyone who had died since we had been in highschool. This is a small town and nothing bad ever happened around here, until my junior year of HS. That year we lost 3 classmates to a carwrecks, 2 to leukemia, and 1 to suicide. Since then 3 more have committed suicide, one collapsed and died at football practice, and a couple to wrecks.

I know what you mean about wondering if its you next. I have barely escaped death a few times. In the wreck that totaled my car in September when it hydroplaned and hit a tree sideways on the drivers side I ended up getting 7 staples in my head. If my head had been two inches closer to the tree, my head would have hit the tree instead of just the window, i wouldn't be alive. It makes me wonder why fate decided to give me those two inches that spared my life?

non-greek newby · #13 05-16-2005, 06:35 PM

I had the same feeling a little while ago when 2 of my friends from high school died in a car crash. But don't worry, Crash, stuff like that just happens and we have to learn to accept it or else we're gonna end up driving each other crazy. It doesn't really matter whether life is long or short. What matters is whether you've enjoyed it and can be truly satisfied if you look back on it.

Taualumna · #14 05-16-2005, 06:52 PM

I'm so sorry, Craig.

cashmoney · #15 05-17-2005, 12:09 AM

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Originally posted by CUGreekgirl
I know what you mean about wondering if its you next. I have barely escaped death a few times. In the wreck that totaled my car in September when it hydroplaned and hit a tree sideways on the drivers side I ended up getting 7 staples in my head. If my head had been two inches closer to the tree, my head would have hit the tree instead of just the window, i wouldn't be alive. It makes me wonder why fate decided to give me those two inches that spared my life?

I know, right? Thats fucking scary.

My first time of near death came in spring 1999, I was depressed, in college, my frat was in the process of having our charter pulled and we were being expelled from campus, two of my frat brothers died in fights during the Univ of Florida vs. univ of Tennesse game during the fall. By the spring everyone was kicked out of our chapter and things started getting really shitty. I was working in a rave club as a DJ and DJs Debbie D (http://www.thedjvibe.com/djs/debbied/) and Baby Anne (http://www.bassqueen.com/) were my special guests, along with DJ Mike B (http://www.phatcatrecords.com/html/a...-my-energy.ram -thats a sample of his stuff). We were all four drinking pretty hard and then somehow some sigma chi ended up with GHB in the dj booth. I had never had it before, didnt know anything about it except that it fucked you up. I don't know strong it was or anything. They took 2 shots of it (a full gatorade cap full of it) and were fine. Meanwhile i was killing liquid cocaine shots and 190 Octane with 153 grain alcohol shots. After that I took 2 caps of the GHB, about 10 minutes later all I remember was laughing with Anne and Debbie while they were hugging me and next thing I know I woke up strapped to a hospital bed with a tube coming out of my dick. And my arms and ankles had leather straps restraining me. This was at 8am and I absolutely didnt remember anything from 1:00am to 8:00am. They said I passed out in the club, the ambulance came and got me. By the time I got to the hospital and was put in the bed with the thing coming out of my dick while draining my body, I came to and they said I knocked a doctor out when I woke up seeing him standing over me. After that they gave me a sedative, or so they say, and when I woke up thats when I saw myself strapped to the bed with 2 cops there and a doctor asking me who I was.....calling me John Doe. Thank god Debbie and Anne took my wallet and the police and doctors didnt know who I was. I told them I was one of my friends from back home, acted like I had a hard time knowing who I was, and gave them some random social security number and they released me ( i was so lucky I ended up not having to pay that med bill because of not telling them who i really was). After that the police asked me a few questions as to why i had GHB in my system. I acted like I didnt know what that was and since I was DJing that night...people were giving me free drinks all night and bringing them to me. I said someone must have slipped something in my drink. The doctor told me I was really close to dying. My heart rate and breathing rate was so low they seriously thought I was about to die. The doctor reccommended me to go to some substance abuse place but I never did. I figured I didnt need to since it was my first time doing it and I had no fucking clue what that shit would have done to me since drinking all that strong liqour. Trust me, I was shaken up for a few months and didnt even want to hear about GHB while I was in the same room with some of my frat brothers. I told my parents I got alcohol poisining instead of nearly dying from GHB, told them I drank 750ml of Vodka that way they wouldnt freak over the GHB. Since then I had never been so stupid with it to where I ended up in the hospital. But yea, this is just ONE time I should have been dead. The other two were insane car situations to where all it mattered between my life and death were a mere 30 seconds and an avril lavigne song.

Cash