Why I don't BB...

[RXXL]

What can you say? Too sad...

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[WC]

Hard to say anything, let's remember that he helped save a young boy from drowning and take time to send our love to his family and friends.

[Gazsurf]

Could happen to anyone here.... good thoughts.

[McDing]

Just a little 14--18' Whitey. God bless his family. Especially his Mother who had just spoke with him the day before.

[pra_ggresion]

I can't help but feel this was an epic way to go. In his strongest moment of life he was negated in the blink of an eye, without suffering he went the way of a warriors death, coloring a barrel blood red.

[McDing]

Pra----- I have heard similar comments before by others. Simple truth is that ; You were not in his swim fins and/or; Easy for you to say. More than likly if this young man were given the choice by God To give up boogerboarding/surfing in exchange for his young life; What the hell do you think he would choose. Especially given his young age. In the grand scheme of things; perfect barrels and Blood just are that important.

[pra_ggresion]

Who is this GOD TO that gives a choice between life and death? First of all if I were in his swim fins I could care less about an internet conversation 1000 miles and week away from eternity (or nilch, if brevity is your thing) 'cause the sad fact is that the dude is dead, just like everyone will be. In fact I would care even less about the conditions that brought it about. I agree living for a time would have been better, because then there is something there to care about it.
The manner in which someone dies is for the living and how the living choose to view it determines how the living will carry on.

And as for giving up swim fins to live a little longer... Do you advocate sitting in a recliner each day with a safety belt on just to avoid what will certainly happen anyways. Gotta live sometime even at the risk of getting eaten by a shark.

In fact when I die; I would prefer to skid into heaven on a skateboard in a wet wet suit with a half empty bottle of a fine wine in one hand, love letters in the other while wearing sunglasses. Carpe Diem Mutherfukers!

[McDing]

Death as you speak off it sounds pretty cool! Like going to a two day rock festival. I'm old though and I don't know $#!t. Getting my leg amputated in the flash of an eye by a GW or bustin' my head open on a curb from a skateboard fall sounds pretty glorious compared to the Big C or a .357 thru the chin. But Hell I'm not 18 and don't know $#!t.

[pra_ggresion]

I'd say

[McDing]

Such brevity! Predictable though.

[pra_ggresion]

I'd say

[Spanky]

We're all gonna die.
We don't get to choose how.
Having fate deal me out while doing what I love would beat any scenario besides in my sleep.

Don't feel sorry for this kid. Feel sorry for the kid who found out he has bone cancer and gets to suffer with it for the next 18 months before his number is officially called.

-Spank-

[grizldoldfk]

good point spank.

[fixyello]

when i was about 27 or so, i can remember thinking to myself, "i could die right now a happy man". Maybe this young man was of this mindset when he went.
Obviously, i/he would be missing out on a lot that would come, but i was pretty balanced and very happy with how i had lived at that point.
Yes, we are all going to die somehow, most of the time it is not pretty and like someone said, we cannot choose how.
It is a sad situation, but it could be any of our fates.

I plan to just show some deserved respect/thought for his situation, his family and move on as we humans do.

now that i am in my 40's, i cannot honestly say "i could die right now a happy man". i am guessing this is a life process and that is for me to figure out again before my number is up.

getting in the water sure helps though.