What Will People Say When I’m Gone?
The recent surprising and untimely death (is death ever timely?) of a local 21-year-old was sad, to be sure. Head-on collision, passenger in surgery, the other driver in ICU. But what caught my attention, and what made it even more sad to me, was the initial reaction of his Facebook friends. OK, sure, most of them probably knew him from school or from the wine bar where he worked, but many were friends who had known him longer. And yes, he’s only 21 so it’s not like he had time to win a Nobel Prize or two. But still, it made me think.
Almost all of the reactions were brief. Most repeated the same two or three phrases one is expected to say. The reactions that contained the most original content were generally in the form of jokes (because he would have appreciated that) or funny stories about a shared memory. However, those were few and far between.
And that got me to thinking – what would *my* friends say on my Facebook wall if I were to die today in an accident? It’s a sobering thought, and who wants to be sober?
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