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Well a friend of mine is dying. I'm closer to his elder brother. When we were in our late teens theirs was the family home we all gravitated to. His Mum was always like a surrogate to me when I was a young'n.
Last year as they all gathered for one of their epic family weekends a tragic accident befell their Dad and he was killed. No one has really recovered from that yet and now cancer is taking the middle sibling in his early thirties.
I'm only writing this to process it really. It makes so little sense that just typing the facts is quite cathartic. I'm numb. How does that family process this? How does his Mum endure this continued onslaught on the only things she ever actually held dear? And what of my friend's wife whose speech at the Father's funeral was a touching promise to start a family and raise it with the same dynamism and generosity as her father in law? What of his older brother, my good pal - a scientist and a guarder of emotions. Will his brain fold under the weight of it? What of his younger sister who has always looked up to these warm, intelligent, energetic, strong men in her family and will have lost two in such short succession?
I'm aware that we are lucky enough to live in a corner of the world where this type of luck isn't a fact of life. We generally expect to live long and prosper. But My friend's family is being taken the piss out of badly and I can't think of a group of people who deserve it less.
Not a sympathy post. Just a rant really - and I clearly needed it as I am now realising the gravitas of it all.
Life!