Comments on: so much for lightening up….

By: girlgriot

girlgriot — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:13:20 +0000

This is awful, Maggie, and knowing which young man you’re talking about changes nothing. As others have said, he doesn’t deserve to be held in cold storage until someone can pay to have him buried. So sad.

Like Captain Steve, we lost a kid a year from 7th grade to senior year in my school, most to car or motorcycle accidents (one to alcohol poisoning), and knowing they should have known better than to get behind the wheel didn’t make their deaths less tragic, didn’t make the hardship on their families any less painful, didn’t make our tiny town’s response any less heartfelt.

Hang in there, Maggie.

By: Chanda

Chanda — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:38:43 +0000

It’s heartbreaking all the way around. I think you can be angry with someone for a stupid move that ends tragically, and still mourn his life, still miss the person. I guess that’s the beauty of the human psyche. My only hope is that it reaches someone. Just one person who will not to get behind the wheel the next time it’s their turn to choose.

By: arizaphale

arizaphale — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:17:44 +0000

Seems to be the obvious extension to his sad life really. But for the record I’m with your Mom. What a wise lady. I really want to believe she’s right.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:40:17 +0000

That is horribly sad, on so many levels.

By: we_be_toys

we_be_toys — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:43:10 +0000

It changes nothing. That poor kid didn’t get set on that road in a vacuum - his family’s state of disintegration, and the underlying causes are part of the recipe for this kind of tragedy. I’m glad there will be a community effort to do the right thing by him. Its always sad when a kid throws his life away and no one is there to stop him.

By: Lea

Lea — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:45:03 +0000

And I have to edit Debbies comment a bit “breathylizers in every car, period, so that it won’t start”.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:10:31 +0000

Fortunately for me and other drivers, when I was 19, I drank and drove and had a wreck that totaled my car. I came out uninjured and that was my wake-up. No one could have convinced me not to have done it before that happened. I don’t know the answer to the problem other than making it so expensive, like cigarettes, the teens can’t afford it or mandatory breathylizers in every car a teen drives so it won’t start.

God loved this child and he should be buried properly, so I’m glad he has friends to try and raise the money. This type of thing should be covered by a State fund, hence the government. We owe it to our children.

By: sspare

sspare — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:48:12 +0000

Um also, “cemetery” is one word of very few that I spell incorrectly EVERY SINGLE TIME. Dammit.

By: sspare

sspare — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:47:08 +0000

I actually have the answer to the city cemetary association question. (Why? Because I’m the last staff writer of our little newspaper standing, THAT’S WHY. Oh, you didn’t ask, did you?)

First of all, there are no funds for the “city” because we’re a village of less than 7,000 people. We have no money for ANYTHING, much less a cemetary. The entire township has cemetaries that are vitually hemorrahging money - they sell on average six plots per cemetary per year, which is not even enough money to maintain landscaping costs. The biggest cemetary is staying afloat precisely because of its central location, but it too is having financial problems.

It would be lovely to have a cemetary association that could handle and afford to help out families in need, but sadly, our beautiful little village simply doesn’t have the dimes.

By: Maggie, dammit

Maggie, dammit — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:39:58 +0000

I’ll be there.