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People Reveal How Their Classmates From School Unexpectedly Died

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CW: Death, assault, and accidentals.

Katy B. She was my classmate.

She died tragically in a car accident.

Her car hit an oil slick and flew into the air, passing mid-sky over a median and landed on another car.

Katy was beautiful.

Katy was cool.

Katy was popular.

And best of all, she was kind to the unpopular.

She died shortly after graduation.

I hate that.

Life... at its worst.


Redditor leilavanora wanted to hear about the people who left this world too soon, so they asked:

"How did the kid from your school die?"

So many people gone before their time!

Gruesome

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"Fell off a jet ski and then got hit by it when the driver turned around. Drowned."

lindseys10

"Jet skis are insanely dangerous. If you read up on jet ski deaths they are awful much more gruesome too."

anightclubfordogs

Family Issues

"There was a boy from a family of alcoholics, whose parents divorced, he lived with a mom who was a very heavy drinker and a stepdad. Stepdad had a son who spent quite some time in mental facilities and rehab because he f**ked up his brain with drug use. The son eventually came home to live with his father and my classmate. One time the classmate accidentally saw his stepbrother sniffing glue from a bag."

"Stepbrother got mad, poured kerosene on him, and lit him up. When his mother saw her child was burning she jumped out the window and ran away while his younger siblings were trying to put out the fire. Unfortunately, once they managed to he was already dead."

Healthy-Gain-6586

April

"End-stage renal disease. She was doing good for a couple of years and waiting for a transplant while getting regular dialysis but ended up passing away in 11th grade."

whiteoff44

"That's sad. Plug for Organ donation awareness: April is National Donate Life month. Every day, 17 people die in the US waiting for an organ transplant. If you aren't an organ donor already, sign up at https://www.organdonor.gov/sign-up"

jackruby83

It was devastating

"He froze to death in his sleep after passing out in the snow. It was a school trip with his class and they had some beers but probably some of the first few times they tried alcohol. It was devastating. They were moving from one house to another and he had said he needed a break in between but everyone forgot or just thought he was in another house."

"It sounds like an obvious mistake but it's not necessarily that cold even if it's snow, especially after a drink. To lie down and chill on a snow pile with a good jacket is no problem but if you pass out and forget well damn."

Fit-Childhood879

WTF

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"In middle school, my neighbor accidentally shot and killed his best friend while hunting. Years later he was beheaded by the Taliban along with two English men. Unbearably sad."

Suspicious-War-8839

Guns and hunting. That is just constant danger.

No Violence

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"Wrestling team bully with anger management issues punched an elderly man in a road rage incident and the elderly man shot him dead and was acquitted as it was deemed self-defense."

evolution9673

So Fragile

"He was playing football and randomly passed out. Never woke up again."

Aints*itAngel

"Happened on the soccer pitch next to ours when I was playing 5-a-side with my work buddies. The kid who looked late teens fell down hard and didn't come back up again. They tried CPR and the defibrillator from the office before the paramedics showed up."

"We just stood there speechless watching it go down. And while it looked super bad, they took him away on a stretcher still working on him so I didn't actually find out he died until a week later when we were back for our usual slot and they held a silence."

"Never even found out the kid's name but I still think about it sometimes. Life can so be fragile."

ianjm

Wired

"An electrician screwed up rewiring her family’s house so a live wire was touching a metal pipe connected to the bath. Her mum was wearing rubber work boots when she filled the bath so wasn’t electrocuted but she must have accidentally brushed against the tap or gone to add some more water while submerged and was killed instantly. We lived in a very small town where everyone knew each other so it really rocked our community. She was in the grade above me so would have been around 10-11."

TimedDelivery

Be Safe

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"Like 5 of them died of drunk driving accidents, three of them at one time, Little redneck school in the middle of nowhere apparently people seem to think drinking and driving is the only way to have fun."

Maleficent-Touch-67

Life is fleeting and fragile.

Appreciate every second, kids.

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