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Bloody fucking hell. One of my wife's new "mum friend"'s husbands was killed (technically still missing) in a scuba accident out here yesterday. She had lunch with her on Monday while he went out diving, they laughed at the lunacy of his going out in the cold and murk... and he never came back. They called off the search this morning. They've got three kids including a 5 month old baby. Bleak.
As if that isn't bad enough this is the third time someone we know has karked it in the last three months. Each of them with a young family. First up my wife's best mate's husband died suddenly following a short illnessin December. Turned out he had undiagnosed leukaemia and a cold turned into sepsis and he was gone in 10 days. They had two boys who turned 2 and 4 on Christmas eve and boxing day respectively. They'd only got married in June. I'd thought that was about as bad as it got.
Then my old mate (and the singer in my old band) was killed in a car accident on the way back from dropping her son off at nursery. The dad (drummer in said band) was at home with their 8 week old baby daughter. Yep that's worse I thought... Now this.
Not fishing for sympathy here. I didn't even know the last couple and had only met her once. My wife is is very fond of her though and they'd been hanging out a fair it. Just... fucking hell really.
What the fuck do you say?