6.25 English Learning
How did that one kid at your school die?
Threw a can of pressurized/aerosolized bug spray in a camp fire.
It blew up and burnt him severely, significant burns to the esophagus/lungs. Took him 10 or so days to die in the hospital.
Terrible terrible thing I imagine.
That's awful. I saved a kid from doing that once. He could have taken out all the campers still sitting around the fire. Counselors were already in their tents and I was the oldest.
I can’t believe the counselors left their campers unattended with a fire. I’m glad you were there to stop him.
Im in a town where everyone knows everyone. I was my last year in primary school (10/11 year olds) and the youngest years were 5 year olds.
One stood out, Matty. Lil bro was a menace and hyper af. So growing up I always recognised him around town.
Fast forward to when I was 18/19, I'm coming homefrom work. To get to my place you have to drive past a field his old man owns with some live stock and I see some smoke coming from the bottom. Told my folks to keep going home, its likely Matty and friends (now 11/12) with a campfire I'll keep an eye on them for a while.
I get down there and sure enough, small group of lads just chilling with a controlled fire. I make it a lil more secure and chill out with them keeping an eye.
Matty left the circle and was messing about making a 2nd fire, kept my eye on him but didn't think to much of it. Took my eyes off him for maybe 30 seconds? Next thing I hear is "WATCH THIS" as his face is 6 inches from a fire, which hes just placed a pressurized can in marked extremely flammable. Can't remember what it was. Swear to god I've never moved so fast and tackled him straight down to the ground. Second later, it was like a small bang and a sound that was like well what I assume firing a flame thrower sounds like. Caught the blast all on my left side, being a few feet away from it was still enough to make that side of my face bright red for days.
Had he stayed that close to it face forwards, I imagine this is how he would have ended up
I hope he learned his lesson to stay safe and everyone was okay. you're a hero
No idea, that was 13 years ago, little shit still dodges me in the street out of embarrassment xD
Haha picturing a man in his mid 20s still dodging you all these years later
Went overseas, played cricket, and died from a cricket ball to the skull.
It's crazy how much damage those can do, such an unfortunate way to go.
When I was in grade school we had a sweet little boy who died of brain cancer. Life certainly isn’t fair.
Had a friend down the street in kindergarten. He died from brain cancer at 6... like... what? I was too young to fully understand but it has always stuck with me.
My sister died of cancer at 9 years old and all she ever knew was cancer and treatments from the age of 2 onward until she passed. What was terrible is when she did get to go to elementary school, the kids would often run from her because she was bald. She cried to me one day saying no one liked her.
I also saw a lot of children with cancer growing up. I was surrounded by them, and death at a young age. So many kids have to go through such terrible things, and while some did survive the ones that didn’t stick in my mind.
all she ever knew was cancer and treatments from the age of 2 onward until she passed
the kids would often run from her because she was bald. She cried to me one day saying no one liked her.
Now I'm crying
How can this world be so terrible
Don’t cry! I mean, it is sad, but there were a lot of happy moments too. She was a pretty positive and happy kid most of the time.
I just mention this because I think it’s important for parents to teach their children about people who are different, and how their actions might make other kids feel. It’s important to teach children from a young age to see things from other peoples point of views.
These kids that ran from her were the same ones signing things saying they loved her when she passed away. And I believe that this is so common among a lot of these other posts too.
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I saw this exact fucking thing in Tampa 20 years ago on Dale Mabry. I saw the truck speeding up go past me with a scrawny 12 kid trying to weigh the stack of mattresses down, then I saw the top mattress take flight, then flip and dive into the ground. No one tried resuscitation. Blowing into his mouth would have just came out of his head somewhere else. He was dead dead.
I had never considered this could happen more than once.
In my town, it was after a fun summer day spent rafting on the river. Afterwards the inflatable raft was tied to the front bumper of a pick up truck, but somebody needed to ride with it in the back of the truck to hold it down. As soon as the truck reached highway speeds, the rope broke, flipping the raft -- and the 17 year old girl in it -- onto the highway. Head injury and immediate death. It's been 30 years since then and still hurts.
What’s horrific to me, is I grew up in that area and have a redneck dad who 100% would have asked me to do something like this
We had a lot of deaths at my school. Two that stick out.
One kid in my class shot himself when he got a D in math class. We were in middle school. He did it at home.
Another kid went into surgery for a football injury, had an allergic reaction and died.
An old coworker of mine went in for a surgery on her ankle and died as well.
I wasn’t in direct contact with her but noticed she hadn’t posted anything on Facebook for a while. I asked a mutual friend how she was doing and that’s when I found out.
She had a lot of health problems that could have caused it. I don’t know exactly what happened but I know the surgery was supposed to be an easy routine one and it didn’t turn out that way.
Holy fuck. That first one is unbelievably sad. He must have been getting some insane pressure for him to feel like getting a D in middle school math was the end of the road
Murder-suicide. His mother shot him, his father, his sister, and then herself. The father and sister survived but he and his mother both died.
just devastating on every level.
Thats tragic. Hope the father and sister are doing better now.
Similar story, the dad shot the mom & turned the gun on himself. 2 high school aged boys had to go to the group home.
Had a similar, one of the nicest guys Iv ever known, his mom was in a bad relationship, he went to defend her, put a beating on the abusive boyfriend, so the boyfriend went to his car got a gun shot both him and his mom. Heard about it a month or so after it happened when I asked why he hadn’t been around in a while.
6th grade, they were playing tag in school, kid climbed a tree and fell head first. didn't make it to the hospital.
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omg that is frigging horrifying
it is. it happened after school too so like we just found out the next day when they announced it.
This reminds me of the middle school boy who tried to jump over a javelin sticking out of the ground and ended up impaling his dick. I will never forget that story. And I keep trying.
EDIT: "The 12yo boy pierced his groin when he tripped over the razor sharp gym equipment at Saint Stephen's College in the norther Gold Coast suburb of Coomera. The boy still had parts of the javelin inside his body when he arrived at the Gold Coast University Hospital after fire crews had broken off the ends with cutting equipment. The boy is believed to have fallen on top of the javelin after he tried to jump over it while it was stuck in the ground."
The boy still had parts of the javelin inside his body when he arrived at the Gold Coast University Hospital after fire crews had broken off the ends with cutting equipment.
Jesus bleeding Christ! I crossed my legs reading this and I don’t even have a dick.
He was chasing his drunk father to save him from trying to drive, the two crossed the road and were hit by a truck.
Just happened today actually, I'm a head coach and one of my assistant coaches son was killed this morning. A 16 year old in a big ass lifted truck drove though a red light, killed him on impact. Its been23 hours since it happened and I don't even know how to process it. I was sober for almost 2 years until 6 hours ago. Condolences, this shit is hard to deal with.
Hey man, that’s fucking crazy rough. Remember to jump back on the sobriety train and reach out for help.
I’m in recovery and I lapsed when I watched my grandfather pass away. Nothing is more important than your sobriety, especially in times like these.
Those kids need you sober and whole.
Edit: @thejak32: because you can’t see the upvotes, there are over 500 people who have upvoted this and are rooting for you.
I’ll also use the visibility to reiterate some things that others have mentioned:
A lapse is not a relapse. You can stop the cycle right now. Reach out to people you trust and let them know. The faster you communicate, the faster you can get back on track.
Guilt and shame are easier emotions than grief. Do not replace grief with guilt and shame. It’s a trick our minds like to play on us. You got this my dude. You can dm me. M working but I’ll check in on my messages.
You are loved
Thank you, I'm typing this as tears come to me. Ive not relapsed yet, this is my first time. I want to crawl into the depths of hell and cry right now because of everything and the relapse is the pickle on top of the bloody mary of my feelings right now. This was a good kid, my coach is a fucking good coach. He's actually not a good coach, but he cares SO FUCKING MUCH about the kids, I've kept him around the past few years, because that's more important to me than winning anything. Fuck me, I need to sober up and be there for him, don't i?
Yes, but don’t hate yourself for not being sober in that moment. Please do stay sober, but be kind to yourself as well. I’m really, really sorry for your loss. That’s tragic, and I wish you all the best. You’ve got this. <3
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard
Yes, you do need to sober up and be there for him. He needs you more than ever, and so do the kids. You can do this, I believe in you❤️
Just jumping on here to say, I don't know you, I don't know your story other than this little window you've shared today, but I'm rooting for you and I believe in you.
This lapse in judgement on a horrible day, doesn't define who you are, and who you've worked to be these past 2 years of sobriety. You fell down, but you can pick yourself back up again. Good luck.
You got this, dude, I believe in you. Toss your empties, give away your fulls, dust yourself off, and grieve with your buddy. Don't forget to hit a meeting and share; my grandma's been sober 30+ years, and going to meetings helped keep her on the wagon when my grandpa died. Best of luck, and don't forget to take care of yourself.
Allow yourself to grieve, but give yourself the grace to not shame yourself for drinking now, and keep moving forward with sobriety. Don’t blame you for breaking it op, what a horrible thing
Dude this fucking blows, his last moments were just filled with trauma and fear for his dad. That's awful.
Dengue fever - she had gone back to her family home in the Phillipines over summer holidays and got really sick. Her last MySpace post was “her name is going to die with this fever” and she was dead less than 24 hours later
I grew up in the Philippines and caught Dengue fever when I was in college. It was no joke. I remember looking at the mosquito bite around noon, by 4pm I had a high fever and that evening I was already in the ER with low platelet counts and hallucinations. I had to be in the hospital for about two weeks, getting blood drawn almost everyday to monitor everything. It was scary as hell.
It's really scary, I remember that when I had dengue I felt pain even moving my eyes, I couldn't look up for example. A horror
I read an article by a guy from doctors without borders. Dude mentioned Dengue and casually said only Ebola scared him more. I've been terrified at the prospect ever since.
Dengue is right there with Ebola and Marburg as one of these "tropical viral hemorrhagic fevers that give you more than metaphorical chills."
The initial symptoms are similar enough that the diagnostic differential is basically "wait and see how it evolves."
The only reason Dengue isn't as scary as the other two is that it doesn't always turn into a hemorrhagic fever. Still a miserable experience, though.
My GF's family is planning a reunion in the Phillipines soon. We would so love to go, with Covid it has been years since we've been there. But we have a 2yo son now and we have decided not to go because of Dengue. It's especially dangerous for children. There's a vaccin available now, but it's not given < 4 years.
Edit: well Reddit thank you, it's been a tough decision and the hardest part of not being part of it is actually yet to come, so all of your support is very, very much appreciated!
You got this it's only two years. Sucks not to be able to see your family maybe you can go extra times when it's safe.
You guys are right to be cautious.
Never get it at all is 100% better then any other option, because getting it twice can cause dengue hemorrhagic fever if you’re not lucky enough.
My cousin spent a week in hospital when she’s in college bc of dengue, and her doc basically told her to be careful about mosquito,because “if you get it again,you die” , he’s exaggerating but the risk is very real, she up root everything and move north after graduating because getting dengue gave her some of most miserable times of her life.
Damn mosquitoes. I believe they're the number one killer of humans out of anything.
My brother (lives in Colorado) contracted the West Nile virus about 2 years ago. He almost died. He had encephalitis from it was in the hospital for about a month, then got Bell's palsy so he couldn't move his face - and was continual in pain for about 7 months. It was absolutely horrific.
Most people with West Nile virus obviously don't get that sick but a few do. Dr. Fauci got it and said it was the sickest he's ever been.
Cancer. And he was the school bully so everyone was so happy he was gone from school...until he died. Then we all felt guilty. And shockingly, the priest (Catholic school) mentioned it in the weekly "ask the priest anything" hour. "He was a bully, and many of you disliked him....but you didn't kill him. You didn't give him cancer. I want you to remember that and don't blame yourselves. But don't forget him. Bullies aren't happy, they may do it because their family lives are bad or because they don't like themselves. He was young and he had a whole life ahead of him, and he might have changed. Don't forget him and try not to judge him, that's for God." 50 years later I still remember that day.
They did a good job acknowledging both the bullying and potential feelings of guilt. Sounds like they did their best to help people process it.
I like how they also acknowledged people can grow too, and he may have eventually developed out of it.
Many years ago I met the bully of my primary school.
He was a really nice, quiet but friendly guy who now did social work. Nothing glamorous, but very real stuff.
I appreciate that I learned that people can change.That's a really powerful message, it made me tear up 😢
That priest was a very sharp guy.
Undiagnosed brain aneurysm that ruptured while she was riding the school bus in 8th grade. The cemetery that she was buried in was across the street from the high school so we visited her grave often. I wasn’t on the bus that day, but the stories of the chaos that ensued that day were heartbreaking to hear from the students that were there.
That’s sad. Aneurysms are my worst fear. Can happen to anyone
My mom had one rupture when I was a junior in high school. She complained of a bad headache that day, but she was prone to sinus headaches, I didn't think anything of it.
A few hours later, I found her collapsed backwards on the bed in agonal breathing.
She almost died because the location of the aneurysm was in a bad place, but she became one of the first people to undergo coil embolization. A few years later, they got clear enough scans to be able to go in and clip it off.
I was as helpful as I could be, and didn't tell my parents about the nightmares, the flashbacks, the jumpiness, the times I'd wake up hearing my mom snoring and think it was happening again.
It was years later before I learned I had PTSD.
Docs found an aneurysm a few years ago after doing a routine CT (I have a few benign brain tumours) and had an emergency CT within a few weeks to see if anything was growing. By the second scan the aneurysm cleared itself up. Talk about lucky.
Jumped into a river, got caught up in underwater plants.
Oh man.... Not a fear we factor in all the time.
Kid who used to bully me a bit, wasn’t overall a real bad kid but the week before he’d grabbed my collarbone and dragged me around the quad by it like it was a handle. It was still sore when he ran out in front of a car on a crossing and spent a week or so in a coma before dying.
We were only about seven or eight, but when they went around the class and tried to get us all to say our favourite memory of him I couldn’t come up with anything. I just said he used to bully me, but I didn’t want him to die.
Everyone looked at me like I was a fucking monster, and the teacher got flustered and moved on.
Sounds like a pretty honest answer for you being a kid that age. I don't think there's any shame in that.
The thing is, there were plenty of people ahead of me, and I genuinely was trying to just think of something, anything nice to say about him. The truth wasn’t that he was this irredeemably bad kid or anything. He’d grown up with my best friend at the time, and I think he didn’t like me because that friend hung out with me more then: stupid kid stuff, but it definitely bothered me that I couldn’t even come up with a single good thing to say about a person who was probably just a jealous kid who couldn’t express himself.
But of course, I was seven at the time as you say, so none of that was actually going through my head at the time. This is all post-hoc rationalisation of how I imagined I felt. Truth is, I was also just a kid who couldn’t express himself either.
Still, these things stay with you.
I remember something similar when one of my classmates had an aneurysm and almost died. The teacher thought it would be a good idea to record some messages to him. I refused to do one because, honestly he was a bit of a d$&k, and it just felt disingenuous to be doing it. Everyone had a similar reaction as they did to you so i just asked how they’d feel, in probably their most vulnerable moment ever, hearing a get well message from someone they hate. It got the point across
He had cancer. He was getting better but his port got infected while they were changing it and he died. He was my best friend and I still feel his absence 10 years later.
God damn. I had a port when I had cancer that got infected. Didn’t know it was that common.
Sorry for your loss.
My oldest brother had a port for dialysis, and it got infected at least once. It's unfortunately pretty common.
One burned to death after finding some paint thinners in an industrial skip (dumpster), put a match to a 5 litre drum and boom. Took about a week for him to die of his burns. Think about him every Halloween, when the accident happened
Dying from burns is the worst way to go. Well the most horrifically painful way at least.
I think it should be legal to euthanize people who are so horribly damaged doctors can only sit around and watch them die.
Really kind, smiley guy was dating my friend. We played volleyball together. One weekend the three of us and a few others all hung out, things were normal and fine. The next week we found out her boyfriend hung himself in his closet. He was 16 years old. Still haunts me to this day.
Collapsed and died during a PE lesson due to an undiagnosed heart issue. Very surprising as they were a keen runner.
The PE Teacher who tried to revive them went on sick leave not long after, suffering from PTSD and cancer apparently
That’s… not like, common in that it’s a thing that happens often, but when student athletes die it’s a common cause. There’s a ton of heart defects like Brugada’s or long QT that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest, typically under stress, that have no symptoms and often no real indicators even with regular sports checkups. Long QT is more likely to be caught because it can be exacerbated by a common anti-nausea drug, so if a kid is given Zofran they might get sick enough for a work up to catch it.
ive been diagnosed with long QT syndrome (type 1) as long as ive been alive, "thanks" to my mother who i inherited the gene from. she was a competitive swimmer back in the day and had her first cardiac event in a swimming pool during a competition. luckily she survived. later her mother and grandmother also received the same diagnosis, even though they had been asymptomatic their whole lives. so, ive always known to avoid competitive sports/heavy workouts. fortunately ive been able to find my passions elsewhere.
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Ours was a car crash coming home from a party, both people were drunk and literally flipped a coin over who would drive. They rolled the car and the Driver lived, the passenger died. Passengers identical twin brother barely able to make it through his speech at the funeral was the saddest moment I've ever witnessed.
He loved to tool around town on his motor scooter while listening to his walkman. A car didn't notice him until too late and he didn't hear the car horn. He was hit and died on the scene.
She wasn't one of the popular kids. She disappeared one summer day. A search turned up nothing. A couple of months later, a farmer harvesting his field found her. She took a bottle of sleeping pills, used a back pack as a pillow and went to sleep watching the sky.
That second one is something rough
As someone who thought about doing a similar thing many times, the second one is sad as fuck
Suicide. Grade 4 i think. He basically told everyone in his class that he wouldn’t be coming to school anymore. But we were kids and no one understood what he meant until the next day when an official announcement was made at school assembly
Christ... 4th grade???
Some people are just forced to go through horrible shit very early in life, and sometimes it's difficult to notice on the outside.
It took everything my mind could come up with to stay away from killing myself around the time I had just turned 6. I didn't even know how I would make it through a period of a few months where I had no choice but to stay with a family member who dropped the pretense of loving me all along once I was isolated from my parents and the rest of the world, and sadistically SA'ed me, but my brain broke in a serious way just to lessen my awareness of the pain. Then I was actively thinking about doing it for a few hours everyday when I was 9, but for a completely different reason, then it got worse until I was 13.
Between those years, lots of adults would gush at me about how "fortunate" I was to have some of the noticeable privileges in life. And how childhood was the best time of my life where I got to be carefree and innocent. No one, not even my parents, knew about most of the things I was going through, and my parents scoffed that I had nothing to be sad about and scolded me for being ungrateful when I told them that I couldn't stop wanting to kill myself when I was 13.
I know quite a number of people who have had it worse than me from the start, and their lives hardly had the redeeming factors and extraordinary strokes of luck that helped me survive and still preserve a decent path forward.
I wish more people understood just how much disparity there is between people's lives, and it's in so many more ways than they can imagine.
Similar. Had a burning passion for soccer. And was far and above the most talented player in the school. Had a congenital heart condition. Was told he couldn’t play by the doctors. Parents got second opinion. He played. His heart gave out in the field.
We had a kid like this too except he was in my 8th grade gym class and we didn’t know he had a heart condition and he just fucking.. fell over. My mom made me take a CPR class before I could babysit my siblings, and I really gave it my best little 8th grade shot for a solid 20 minutes before the EMTs showed up- we had a substitute that day, and I was the only one who knew how to do it. I’m still sorry to his parents. Sorry Mr and Mrs K. I really tried. ETA: thanks everyone for the well wishes. It was almost 30 years ago now. I’m glad to be talking about my friend here even if we did end our friendship on such a tragic note. He was a great kid that loved to bbq and play basketball and he taught my little brother how to ride a bike. I just think everyone should know that.
You did literally all you could do
Realistically I know that and there really wasn’t anything I could’ve done, nothing was going to magically restart his heart and after 5 minutes he probably wouldn’t have wanted us to anyway. It’s just a hard thing to go through when you’re not legally even old enough to drive a car.
I named my son’s middle name after him. They have the same birthday :)
My best friend had a kid die in middle school because during a baseball game, he got hit in the chest around his heart that caused an arrhythmia (?). It was a terrible freak accident that turned a fun game into tragedy.
When I was in 8th grade, my other friend's family couldn't afford meds and at the time, he was diagnosed as manic depressive. I think that's BPD now. But he committed suicide the summer before our freshman year.
Heart attack at 15. It was pretty devastating for a lot of the students.
1st grade — kid from my class passed away in a house fire. I remember asking my teacher where he was after he hadn’t been in class for a week. She took me out in the hall and told me he’d gone to heaven. When I told my mom about it after school, she asked for the boy’s name, I told her, and turns out she had read how he died in the newspaper.
I lost it after that; boo-hooed for hours. I wasn’t super close to the kid, but we played together at recess occasionally, and I considered everyone in my classroom as my friend. Took me a while to get over it — I kept thinking over and over how horrible of a death that must have been.
Firefighter here.
If it’s of any consolation almost all housefire fatalities are due to CO & oxygen depletion long before the fire reaches them, if they didn’t have a smoke alarm it’s very possible they died in their sleep.
Our school used to have early morning and evening swimming practice...for the school swimming team members. When I say early morning, I'm talking 4am/5am. Afraid of punishments, the girls would hurry out their dorms to the pool quick.
One day, one girl ( we still aren't sure if she was sleepy or suicidal ) .... She jumped from the top most diving board...
Straight into an empty pool. The water had been drained night prior. Everyone was left wondering if she thought there was water ... Or if she just jumped.
Poor girl, such a tragic loss. It sounds like she woke and went on autopilot. With the pool having been emptied it should have been locked, there was no reason for kids to have access.
My question would be: was she in her swim suit or normal clothes? I suppose not everybody would think like this, but to me, if I did it intentionally, I'm not sure I'd bother getting dressed for swimming. Getting changed shows intent to swim, to me.
More inclined to think it was a tragic accident, as you said. Early morning, autopilot. Pools don't have waves and can be dead still and clear.
Morning practice is a special kind of autopilot. Not that unusual to functionally wake up in the pool
Wow what a haunting way to go. I’m so sorry that sounds awful. R.I.P
I was the swim team captain... The girl who passed on was a few years ahead.... But the school put up a memorial area on her behalf. Yes, was still traumatic using those same diving boards...
Why was there access to the pool deck? Where were the lifeguards? No signs or barriers noting the empty pool?
As a lifeguard / aquatics person, I have so many questions n.
I know I’d still be in a dream state if I had to go to a swim practice at 4am. With kids often studying into the evening hours I have to wonder who in their right mind would think that a 4am practice was a good idea.
I landed in a discussion on a parenting subreddit once where I learnt it's quite common to have extremely early swim practice (training) in the US.
Two of my friends were on my HS swim team and I was all for joining until I learned it was at 4am at the pool across town 🙃
My husband told me he would drive to swim practice half asleep. Like he would wake up and be at practice with no recollection of driving there. At least the roads were pretty clear that early in the morning.
Underage drinking and driving car accident, she was a passenger
This happened to My husbands sister when they were in high school. She died instantly and her friend who was driving when to prison
She had an asthma attack on a school sponsored ice skate outing and the ambulance couldn't get her to the county hospital on time. She was already blue with bright red, panicking eyes when they took her away. The kicker was that we were told to leave everything at school so if we fell on the ice the things in our pockets wouldn't cause us injury. She left her inhaler behind.
I’m a teacher and one of my students started having an asthma attack at a school assembly. We didn’t have an inhaler in the office for him, so I let him use someone else’s. I, understandably, got in a lot of trouble, but albuterol is a pretty benign drug otherwise, and I was willing to take him and his sister’s word he wasn’t allergic to prevent a possibly catastrophic attack (she was in a different grade but also at the assembly). I can still hear and see the panic in both of them ten or so years later. I was willing to get yelled at for breaking protocol if it meant he could breathe. Luckily, I kept my job and, now as a parent of a child with asthma, I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
That is so awful!!!
Our school guidance counselor was married to a very wealthy guy. They had a son, Brett, who was spoiled, good looking and popular.
Maybe a LITTLE entitled and douchy but far less than you would expect. Overall a decent dude.
Brett started dating this girl who was "poor." Her family shared a house with three other families so they could send their kids to this school district.
Brett's mom did not approve. AT ALL. She wasn't shy about saying so either. She loathed this girl. And the longer Brett kept seeing her the angrier she got.
Then Brett and the girl decided to attend the same university.
The mom was FUCKING PISSED.
Halfway through senior year, Brett died in a car accident.
Never saw the mom again. Never saw the girl again. They quit and switched schools respectively. It was such an unexpectedly tragic end to this silly soap opera we had all been following.
Any time I think about Brett I think about how much his mom must regret that she spent the last few months of his life bitterly fighting him over something as stupid as loving a girl whose parents were in the wrong tax bracket.
From a guidance counseler too...
and RIP Brett
Leukemia. He was 17 as it came back. He looked awful just skin and bones but still cheered everyone on: guys it will all be good again! Two months later he was dead. I’ll never forget how his mother stroked his hair while he laid in the casket, as if he was just asleep. His huge dad, military guy broken down crying. 22 years later it still hounds me. I miss him.
I’m so sorry, that’s truly terrible.
There was a drunk driver that hit a vehicle that had 5 of my football teammates in highschool in it. 4 of them passed away right away and the 5th barely survived and was in the hospital for months. That rocked our community to the core. Still think about them and to this day I’d rather fight someone for their keys trying to drive home drunk than them drive home.
Was that in NJ?
His father strangled him to death with his own pyjamas while he was sleeping.
The father had some mental health issues and in a psychotic episode he murdered his own son.
When he realized what he had done he ran down the street shouting that he had just killed his son. He went to prison and hung himself in there.
We had a situation like this. His dad had a history mental issues but never got help. He shot the son then his wife and then shot himself. They all died. This is why it’s so important to get help when struggling with severe mental illness.
Brain cancer.
I dont even know how to describe this girl. Bear in mind this was the 80s. She was as girlie as they come and could still hang with the dudes.
She was everyone's friend and one day she disappeared. We later found out she had brain cancer but back then we never thought of the word "terminal". Then suddenly after a year she came back in a terrible wig. We all knew it was a bad wig but it made her feel more human. We were just happy to have her back.
Easily 6 months after she came back to school she was gone.
I was a pall bearer at her funeral. Worst day of my life.
I studied with a kid that was born HIV+ with developed AIDS due to his parents being drug users. During the last three years of high school he did three surgeries and removed almost 40% of his lungs.
As you can imagine, a lot of people bullied him. Mind me, he wasn't easy to deal with too. He grew in a foster home and was very social inept, but me and my group of friends always tried to let him fit in as much as we could.
By 2009 we all graduated and we didn't hear from him anymore aside from casual gossips and sightings in the streets until 2017 arrived. A friend of mine was volunteering in a NGO that worked with homeless people and found him in one of the lines for food. By that time he was living in the streets for a long time and not much could be done.
As a lot of us still had contact with each other, in one day we gathered donations and gave him everything he would need to survive for a long time. He was very thankful and told more about his life, how the foster care let him go after he was 18, etc.
Not even two days later another volunteer called my friend to say that this guy got into a fight in the shelter and was expelled. As he was leaving the building, he fell and hit his head in the curb, dying instantly.
Foster care’s hard cut off really fucks people over.
Bit of a loophole here
The kid was my brother. He fell face first into some 6 inches of rebar. It pushed past his left eye, penetrated his brain, and came to a stop on the back of his skull on the right.
His heart had stopped when mum found him, pulled him off, called an ambulance.
Ambulance didn't believe what happened (it was 1990) because there was no visible trauma after the eye went back into place. They managed to get his heart going again.
His heart stopped another 3 times in the hospital.
Had to fly an army surgeon over from Northern Ireland, who specialised in gunshots to the head, to do the brain surgery.
My brother lived and is gonna be 40 next year.
Not bad for someone who died 4 times
EDIT: I put this in response to reply from another user, it may be of interest to anyone else reading.
To add injury to further injury, 4 years after his first accident (1994 - 8 years old) he stole my mums cigarette lighter early in the morning to try a lighter trick he'd seen someone do, got it severely wrong, and ended up with full thickness burns on 52% of his body.
ANOTHER EDIT: Another reply to a user's reply.
I almost forgot, when he was 12, his seatbelt failed during a crash, and he went through the windscreen.
Totally unscathed.
1 accident every 4 years. Luckily, his 18th year went by without a hitch
Been scrolling for a good hour and that's the only one with a happy ending. So grateful for this, I'm glad your brother survived that
He got drunk on a cruise. Went to impress some girls by jumping from the aft terrace deck to the deck below.
There was no deck below.
So he just fell into the water off a cruise?
This is surprisingly common, it's interesting how drunken choices on a cruise lead to people going in the deadly ocean.
Saw my drunk husband wandering towards our balcony mumbling about going for a nice walk and I have never moved more quickly in my life 😅
Suicide. She was a kind, beautiful, popular girl. Everyone loved her and no one had any idea she was struggling. I only knew her because her brother used to bully me on the schoolbus. But she was a sweetheart. I remember the teachers crying that day.
Suicide was my answer too except my classmate wasn't popular. He was kinda odd but nice, I sat next to him in health class. He was always kind of unkempt and I didn't realize for many years that it was likely a sign he had a rough home life. Well, that and the suicide of course... RIP Randy.
Fell from the 4th floor. The shittiest part was that he was basically paralyzed and lied on the bed for 5 years straight until his death.
Just kill me at that point
There were two identical twins in my highschool. Everyone knew them because they were always together and both heterochromia, just inversed, and that's how we could tell which one was which. One day I came to school to be told that one of them just suddenly died while playing football, in front of the other. The second didn't come to school for a while, I can only imagine how it must feel to see your brother drop dead in front of you.
My two friends were fraternal twins and were together when one died. I can't imagine losing a sibling, let alone a twin. And to see it happen.
Kid was a hood hopper.
Threw up gang signs to gangs he wasn’t a part of, and threw it up to the wrong dude. Got followed home and shot in the back of the head.
Gangs are stupid, pretending to be in one is even more so.
I can’t imagine being so stupid and so violent that you’d literally follow a teenager home to kill them.
Like… god. Just throw the whole person away. People like them just never really grow up I guess.
Leukaemia, weeks from being 12.
I had known him for three years. I was always sitting next to him because I never got sick and was adamant about keeping my hands and stuff clean so our teachers sat me next to him.
I was 11 when they sent all of us home with a sealed note for our parents. Somehow, I just knew what it said so I just handed it to my mother and went off to watch TV.
I still think about him. I think 11 year old me refused to acknowledge he was gone. I was the only one in our year that didn't go to his funeral. I'll forever regret that.
Hey Sunny, it’s not too late to visit him. If he is buried you can visit his grave! Bring a little offering (flowers, a pretty rock, seashells) and tell him you are sorry for missing the funeral. Even if you aren’t religious or anything it will help assuage the guilt. Plus you were 11, I’m sure he would have understood.
When I was younger (around middle school), a high schooler died from being hit by a train; he was playing “chicken”.
A few years after I graduated, a young boy (elementary) committed suicide due to relentless bullying.
He was walking home from a poker night at a friends. Was found floating in the river the next morning.
No one knows what happened. Was he drunk and slipped down into the water? Was he attacked coz he was by himself? Did he do it himself?
He was an only child, and no one had a bad thing to say about him. Shocked us all to the core.
Car accident, 14 years old. Was in the back seat and the car slipped on ice, causing it to slide into the oncoming lane where we got t-boned.
I was the driver of the car, I was 17 :(
He had a hole in the heart from birth. Had some kind of internal bleed out one weekend.
14/15
Lovely kid as well.
R.I.P Michael
Oh my lord I thought you were rating him as a person
Well at the least it would have been a pretty decent rating!
I grew up in rural Germany, almost half of my graduation class (20 people, 9 are dead) is dead now that I'm 37.
A fair few of them due to alcohol and/or other drugs and operating a motor vehicle.
The last one was a woman that died because she got sepsis during a water birth without proper supervision.
One of them got cancer and decided not to treat it.
Damn. Half the people gone at such a young age.
Fell off one of the rides at the school fair
She was drugged at a party. These two guys slipped something in her drink.
Laying on the train tracks. They never determined if suicide or passed out but sitting on the tracks near his house drinking was something he did a lot
We were in 7th grade, his dad took him to the lake shot him and then shot himself.
Not me but a friend. Was on a school trip to Europe from the UK, the channel ferry they were on capsized killing around half of the kids from the trip, plus many others. He tried to save his best friend but failed and watched him being swept away.
Was this on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise?
Two fell into an opening of a frozen lake. They drove the lake regularly and the spot they fell through had weakened that day. He was found in a posture helping her out of the water. She was found about 100 yards from a house.
RIP Jackie and Evan.
A crane fell on her during a major construction project when I was a kid. She was otw to school with her dad. I’ll never forget that morning.
My brothers best friend’s sister died from an OD. Their mom was a single mom raising 2 kids
Got into a fight after school, got hit over the head with a rod, got knocked unconscious. This impacted his unknown heart condition leading to cardiac arrest and death.
What happened to the kid that hit him?
Got chickenpox as an 18 year old and died.
Middle school. She got pregnant. From What I heard she had really religious parents who didn’t believe in abortion. She was forced to continue the pregnancy. She made it to class pretty much up to her due date, she kept saying she was going to come back to school a bit after the delivery. She died during child birth. Not sure what happened to her kid.
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Got high and crashed his car. Ironically, his memorial slideshow included pictures of him rolling blunts
Died how he lived I guess, respect
Cystic Fibrosis, 17. She was the best. That was a really difficult year.
Huffing gasoline in his dad’s shed. He wasn’t at all smart to begin with.
Guy at my school did that in the play house of a kids playpark, only after he got high, he thought lighting a cigarette was a good idea… Kaboom….
A cheerleader killed by a friend. The new police force didn't know what they were doing. They brought in the FBI. It was the early 1980s, they ( Cops, media , students and teachers) thought it was an outcast, or in my case, a punk rocker. 2 of us went through hell, being accused and harassed, for months. Her family of course very upset. It turned out to be someone in her group that did it. Both myself and the other accused girl ended up leaving the school for good.
Suicide. Tried to take his own life twice. Kept getting sent away to mental health facilities to the point people forgot about him. Then he tried again and succeeded. He was only 14.
Drank out of a can of Coke with a wasp in it. Stung inside his throat, which swelled and blocked his air passage. 7th grade.
Threw himself of the school roof , he was bullied but nobody wanted to help him
Got drunk and dove head first into shallow water. He got a huge candle light vigil on the football field and a giant bulletin board covered in paper for people to sign.
A month or so earlier, a kid killed himself due to bullying and all he got was a small “moment of silence” during the morning announcements (nothing about the actual bullying that led to it though ofc) But that kid wasn’t mvp on the jv football team so whatever I guess, at least according to the principal, who had a son on the varsity football team
Not my school, but the rival school: She set herself on fire on purpose
Holy fuck. Self immolation has got to be the wildest way to opt out.
His mom came to pick him up from school, he normally walked home. She parked across the street saw him, called his name. He turned and ran to her and got hit by a school bus (one I was riding home on). About half the school saw it.
He was roasted in the heat of the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980. There was even an aerial photograph in the newspaper of his body in the back of a pickup truck prior to anyone identifying him.
Decapitation in a bus and tractor collision. Edit: the tractor had bailer forks or something like that attached to it.
Suicide- he was a Muslim kid at a Christian school. Parents enrolled him because they wanted a religious environment but there weren’t any Muslim schools. The school and police did a full investigation to see if there was any bullying or evidence of hate crimes against him but didn’t find anything; seems the kid was just unhappy.
The dean held an assembly to talk about what happened and to let everyone know about available therapy councilors if anyone needed it. He apologized for failing to create an emotionally safe enough campus and for allowing a child to be so unhappy under his watch. He had to stop halfway through his speech because he was crying too much and the assistant dean had to finish the assembly.
All classes were cancelled for the rest of the week and the school brought in therapy dogs to sit in the commons for people to pet.
Huge respect for the school though, setting up all that to make sure their students can slowly work through the trauma
Kid in my Jr high, taking a nap I. His bed, dad came home, shot the kid, shot the mom. Shot the dog and then shot himself
Septicemic, she (8yo or something) was healthy and had no condition. Just a sudden general infection (as far as i know - not a doctor and not that close with her family)
One kid died from suicide from bullying that the school knew about but did nothing. Everyone in the school was begging the head teacher to exclude the bully. The police were on site twice a week, too. The bully’s parents always threatened legal action (and physical violence) if the school did do anything.
Victim eventually hung himself but he did it at a building site the bully’s dad was working on with a note detailing everything that had happened.
Bully was finally excluded and arrested. Bully’s family house was attacked, family cars smashed up, dad beaten the shit out of any time anyone saw him in town. Bully and his family had to leave the county despite trying to stay because, rather than own up and apologise for being the scum they were, doubled down on it and threatened to burn down the school, beat up teachers, “end” the parents of other kids…
Vigilante justice at its best.
What the actual fuck??? RIP to that poor kid. The bully and their family can go fuck themselves
The bully picked on everyone, me included. I punch him pretty hard once but, like all bullies who are cowards on their own, he came with some mates and smashed up the windows on my house. Everyone knew what he was like but no-one did a thing. The deputy head and head of the school resigned eventually but it took nearly a full academic year of protests, kids being pulled out, and the press getting involved for them to do it. They lost the respect of everyone in the school, teachers included (who were also complicit, but had less power), and it was a zoo of year.
Where to start? The joke is that my school is a final destination sort of thing. I had a graduating class over 700 and nearly 300 of us are gone or were gone prior to graduation. There was the kid who was killed execution style in the middle of the street after protecting his younger brother from getting beat up. That’s a cold case that still hasn’t been solved. There was the group of kids who died in a house fire. One dude who never woke up from a nap, they had a brain injury nobody knew about. There was my best friend who died from diabetic complications, he went to take a nap, say it with me, never woke up. Several car accidents. Couple drug overdoses. Oh there was the girl who hung herself in the auditorium practicing the school play that one year.
Did you grow up in Sunnydale?
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Middle school, 8th grade. Her mom’s boyfriend tied her, her siblings and mom up in the basement and beat them to death with a pole. One person managed to escape, which was her aunt. But by the time her aunt got the police, they were all dead and killer tried to flee (he was caught). No kid or parent deserves that kind of death.
I have three kids and I regret looking at these comments
Full car of people was driving home after school, guy in the front passenger seat was a bit of a class clown and thought it'd be funny to yank the drivers arm, made him swerve into a wall and richochet off into the other lane. Got in a head on collision with another car that had two people in it. Thankfully, of the seven people in the crash, the guy who caused it was the only one to die.
His girlfriend was 17. He was 18. This relationship is legal in my state.
The girlfriend's stepdad found out they had sex, was mad about it, and told the kid that he's calling the cops and that he was going to prison for statutory rape. The kid jumped off a bridge.
Back in high school in the 90s, there was a rampant wave of kidnappings of Filipino-Chinese citizens in the capital. My classmates literally stopped coming to school, either their families went into hiding because of fear, migrating to the US or Canada, or worse, got kidnapped themselves.
We didnt really know what was happening and the schools were not saying anything. Dismissals were done in almost military fashion and there were police presence everywhere. Despite all of these efforts, some of the students who “disappeared”, we would eventually discover, were still kidnapped. Even with their families paying ransom, they were murdered and their bodies were found in the field in a province outside the capital.
Our entire school was distraught. Even if we didnt know them personally, something as tragic and gruesome as that rattles you.
He was gay and his parents were violently opposed to it. So he walked into a train
didn't know the guy personally but he died from inhaling lighter gas. 5 years later i met this girl in uni which is now my fiancée, one day we were casually talking about the same thing and i mentioned the guy. turns out its her first cousin. sad.
We had a few between middle and high-school. 1 friend of mine was in 7th grade. Another in 8th. A car Accident in front of the school killed a student in 8th. 10th a suicide. 11th a 4 wheeler accident. 11th a friend of mine died of cancer.
I didn't find out about it until years after but a senior this past year in my highschools mom apparently murdered his older sister and injured his 7 year old brother back in 2020 Horrible. Last year she was found not guilty due to mental illness or something.
Thrown of the 20th floor by rich assholes after being drugged at a party. Made big international news. Ivana smitt if you're interested. Literally went to class with her every day, then I didn't. The rich assholes got away with it last I heard.
Asthma attack at a bus stop at 16. Only child of an older refugee single mother with no other family in the country. I felt so devastated for her mother.
Leopard attack, 6 year old I think it was back in early 2000
This is definitely the most unique one ive seen so far
Teacher fell down a flight of stairs and hit his head on the way down. He past away about a week later. About a month leading up to it, he was complaining about memory issues and would get extremely distracted during class. Like he spent half a lesson talking about Christmas light bulbs in an algebra class. Last lesson he told us how his wife was getting worried and wanted him to see a doctor. Looking back I think it was the beginning of dementia.
Tried to sneak out to see his girlfriend and didn't want the engine of his truck to wake anyone up, so he decided to push it up a hill. Truck ended up rolling forward and pinned him against a tree. From what I remember he was a great guy, star athlete, nice to everyone.
He drowned while swimming. We held a swimming competition every year to remember him by.
Another committed suicide by jumping in front of a train.
His best friend was institutionalised, got released then hung himself the next day.
He was my brother. He was given someone else's prescription morphine. He wasn't told the dangers or how many was safe to take. He took 4. We found him on Thanksgiving morning. He was in a coma until he died on December 6th, 1996. It destroyed my family. Mom committed suicide in 98, dad drank and smoked himself to death in 2019. My life completely derailed for awhile but I'm doing OK now.