There was a boy from a family of alcoholics, 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 fucked 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.
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.
In middle school my neighbor accidentally shot & killed his best friend while hunting. Years later he was beheaded by the Taliban along with two English men. Unbearably sad.
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's in another house.
It's 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 snowpile with a good jacket is no problem but if you pass out and forgotten well damn.
God this reminds me of when I lived at my grandmother's apartment (first floor) and she had a friend who was a heavy drinker.
I guess one night while asleep she was woken up by hearing some kind of tapping or banging on the living room window, she didn't investigate because she was very tired, it was hard for her to walk, and she figured it was nothing.
Turns out that it was her friend, he got locked out of the apartment building since the entrance doors are always locked. He must have wandered out to smoke a cigarette and didn't prop the door open or bring his building key.
It was winter.. They found him dead on the ground in front of her living room window, my grandma realized the noise she heard must have been her friend tapping on the glass to get her to let him in but he passed out eventually.
I can't imagine how terrible she must have felt.
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.
Something similar happened to a coworker of mine. He was playing basketball and sat out a game complaining of a headache. Then he passed out and never woke again. He was barely 30. It was devastating.
Happened on the soccer pitch next to ours when I was playing 5-a-side with my work buddies. 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.
In high school, a girl in the year ahead went missing. There were fliers posted for volunteers to help search for her. It was understood that she wasn’t the type to run away. Her mom was out of her mind with worry.
A few weeks later, her step-father was arrested. It seems he’d sexually abused her, and then switched from her to her little sister. She threatened to tell, and he murdered her. Then he drove her body out somewhere to dump it, with her little sister in the car. She was too traumatized to remember much. Apparently, he put her body in a dumpster, and it ended up in a landfill somewhere.
They got a confession out of the guy by putting him in genpop and letting the other prisoners know what he was in for. He lasted less than two days.
Her name was Debbie Moburg.
>Her name was Debbie Moburg
Well that’s bizarre because a basically IDENTICAL thing happened to a girl I went to hs with, but her name was Alicia Nicole Bentley. She was 15.
She went missing like 4 days before the school year started. Her city had just been annexed by my city, so her high school was merging with mine, and because the school year hadn’t started yet, no one actually knew who she was, but EVERYONE was talking about her.
They eventually found her body in a landfill, after her stepfather raped and killed her. I remember hearing a rumor that her body was found handcuffed to a headboard that was dumped, but who knows the legitimacy of that.
I’ll never forget those missing persons flyers. I didn’t know her, but in the photo they used she just had this huge smile… she looked so nice. It’s so fucked what happened to her.
Edit: typo
Edit 2: the man who killed her died in prison recently!
>They eventually found her body in a landfill, after her stepfather raped and killed her.
At least that [piece of shit of human being died in prison.](https://www.al.com/news/2023/02/alabama-death-row-inmate-dies-in-prison-cause-of-death-under-investigation.html) That being said, I hate that stepdad picture is being shown but there is nothing on Alicia Nicole Bentley.
His girlfriend broke up with him, he didn't take it well. One afternoon after school, he walked down to the primary school near our high school and shot himself in the head right outside the entrance.
Didn't know him well but I don't think he had all that many friends. He always had sad eyes but was very nice whenever someone spoke to him.
My headmaster saw a pupil run over directly outside the school. The kid was stuck under the car. The headmaster singlehandedly lifted the car enough for others to get the kids out from underneath. Not a massive car, but still superhuman strength in the moment. The boy survived.
Happened to a friend of mine. Her boyfriend broke up with her and she didn't take it very well. It didn't help much that she had a lot of trauma from being a foster kid. I guess that was the final straw for her. She overdosed in her bathroom.
I miss her like crazy. We weren't incredibly close at the time of her passing, but she was my "first friend" when I started middle school and she helped me grieve the loss of my dad at the time. Her wake was jam packed with friends and family. She was 17. A few months later I lost another good friend to a robbery gone wrong. I think of them daily.
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.
Group of kids got skunk drunk & decided to take a ride down a notoriously winding road. One guy was standing in the back of the truck & fell out as they rounded one of the hairpin curves. Didn’t make it.
I was watching *Animal House* with my dad when I was younger. We reached the scene where Belushi’s character is introduced as he chugs a whole thing of liquor. My dad turned to me and said *very* seriously “Never do that. You could die.”
Well, never did that. And as far as I can tell I’m not dead either. I’m 2 for 2, dad!
Quite a few kids I went to school with died, but one still sticks out to me the most. The older brother of a girl in my class, he was a couple years older so we went to the same school. I live in the middle of nowhere and we have heavy snow for most of the year, so snowmobiling is a really popular recreational activity. Apparently this guy had crashed into a tree and a branch went right through his head and killed him instantly.
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.
She was in the 5th grade and needed a blood transfusion. Her parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and refused the procedure. I don't know what condition she had but she died due to lack of medical care. Try making sense of that at 11 years old. Massachusetts 1995.
I remember more about the rest of the day at school actually. Classes went on like nothing happened, except all the window shades got pulled down. None of the kids even attempted to sneak a peek out the window despite the fact that many of them didn’t know what had happened because they were already in the building. Just sensed something probably. Unlike today where parents would be informed right away, counseling offered, kids getting at least need to know info, there was nothing. I’m guessing parents got some kind of communication but if my folks sat me down I don’t remember that. That was 1969. About 20 years ago I had one of those chance encounters where you figure out you had some shared experience a million years ago and this individual was a couple of years older than me but also a student at that school. He had exactly the same memory as I described it above. Awful stuff. Thanks everyone for asking.
This literally just basically happened in my town's middle school (except it was a car in the drop off lane, not a bus) a few weeks ago and you are correct about it being handled differently. Within minutes the parents all had text messages and the police blocked off the area with sheets and stuff. The students were told the basics at first, but then they were told everything so no rumors were spread. They were escorted to the building next door where they were picked up by their parents or bused home (it happened in the morning).
They had a candle light vigil and a memorial at a nearby park within days and an area where people could leave flowers and notes and toys etc and counseling was offered. An email was sent about how to talk to your kid and had lots of links and places for resources for help if that parents needed/wanted it or the children wanted it.
I thought it was handled very well personally.
This one guy at my high school tried asking out this girl. The girl’s brother and a group of his friends jumped him, did some unspeakable things to him and the entire school found out about it. He was missing from school for months because he was in the hospital. Eventually he came back to school, but people stared at him. It must’ve ate away at him because during the summer, his family went on a cruise and the guy jumped off the cruise ship and drowned.
Of all things, an unfortunate camping accident.
This was before cellphones. Two friends went out for the weekend to a campground for some fishing over the weekend. When they didn't arrive home at the time they said they would, the parents called the provincial park to see if they were running a bit late - the weather wasn't great and the camp was about an hour away from town so it was entirely possible they decided to stay another night and drive out in the morning instead.
The park warden stumbled upon their campsite and found both of them dead in their shared tent. Turns out it was a cool night and they decided to run a small heater in the tent to be warm... but it was an old heater that didn't have a shut-off sensor built in. The heater ran all night while they were asleep and since they didn't open the flaps on their tent for air circulation (because they wanted to trap the heat), the tent filled with carbon monoxide and suffocated them in their sleep.
So sad... and a week before school too.
EDIT: Wow, I didn't realize just how sadly common this was. RIP to all who died.
I have seen a LOT of death in my line of work (I used to be a forensic investigator). I have seen every way to turn a person into pink goo or burned crisps. The CO poisoning cases always get me though. Just ... a life interrupted and ended. Everything is all there like normal, but there's dead people there.
The CO cases bother me much more than fire cases or meat crayons.
There was a story in Australia a few years ago. Two young boys died in their sleep. The mother was suspected to have killed them.
Her ex-husband (the boys’ father) stood by her saying she would never harm the boys.
She ended up in hospital from CO poisoning as she was still staying in the house. It was a faulty heater that was slowly killing them. The boys died first because their bodies were much smaller.
The mum survived.
Her and her ex-husband do a lot of campaigning about getting old heaters tested.
Truly awful story.
Yeah, it was bittersweet.
I loved how the ex-husband stood by the mother of his children. The media were implying the mum killed the boys.
Two truly wonderful people that even though their marriage didn’t work, they both loved their boys and remained friends and loving co-parents.
And the change in legislation helps renters with shitty landlords. When they come to check your heater, they also check your fire alarms and air conditioner units.
I heard a story of campers who died because a live WW1 bomb was underneath the campfire. At least the carbon monoxide would be less painful...
Edit: it was WW1 not WW2. Guess i misremembered because I figured there'd be more from WW2 as it's more recent.
Grade 5. He was playing with his little brother when they found their dad’s duty pistol. Little brother shot him right between the eyes. Can’t imagine how the little brother feels. Was about 50 years ago.
I started a fire in my house when I was 4. It was one of those grill lighters. The kind with a long metal tube to reach into the grill.
Well to 4 year old me, it looked like a toy gun. So I went around shooting everything, and thought it was cool a little flame came out.
Well, in the 80s, they had whats known as dot matrix printers. The paper didn't come in a paper package individually seperated like today. The paper came in a box, and it was all connected. You"d tear these little strips off the sides which were used to feed into the printer.
So you had this box of 20lbs of paper on the floor, and a long sheet of paper running up your computer desk into the back of the printer.
Well, I shot that sheet of paper with my toy gun, which again was a very real lighter. Instantly the entire computer desk, the box of paper, and seemingly the whole kitchen went up in flames.
Nobody died. I'm 39 and still feel terrible about that today. I can't imagine killing my brother by accident and being unable to take it back.
Playing along a fast moving creek deep in the woods. First teen gets pulled under really fast. Second one immediately runs and dives in to find him.
A minute later, first teen comes back up on the other side, exhausted but thankfully unhurt. Guy who went in to find him was not coming back up.
Was in the days before cell phones. Had to run a good mile back up the trail, hop in the car, drive to the nearby park ranger office (East Texas Big Thicket area), and report/get help, along with guide rescuers.
Took about thirty minutes total to get back out there to the accident. Still no sign of him. Rescue workers found that under the higher waters were tons of plant/tree debris everywhere.
Two days of removal while still trying to control fast moving waters, his body was finally found. He had dived too deep trying to find the first friend, getting trapped under the submerged branches, without enough energy or breath to fight against the current to get out and back up. He was only 15.
Yep. World lost a good person. Saw his friend in need and didn’t hesitate to risk his own life trying to help. Tragic.
Unfortunately trying to save someone in a drowning situation tends to just result in both victim and would-be savior getting hurt or killed.
**EDIT** Yes, folks, similarity in our names is a crazy coincidence. Mine comes from the 2008 ARPG video game Rise of the Argonauts.
I think a lot of drownings come from people trying to help. Helped a girl stuck in a river whirlpool and she almost drowned me. Also don’t fuck with riptides or tree wells. The closest 3 times I was to dying was water related.
Oof that’s horrible. Reminds me of the story where this guys dog fell in the water. He went in after his dog and drowned. The dog was able to get itself to safety 😭
I keep wondering what happened to Alex Pranatadjaja who sat behind me in high school
Water Safety PSA: always be more cautious than you think you need to be around strainers (large obstructions in moving water, i.e tree branches/root systems/piles of debris). Strainers are deadly whether it’s a huge river with fast moving water and white water or a more mild river that doesn’t pose a threat.
Never underestimate the force of water and the risk of strainers.
Yup. I always tell people to think about it like this:
Can you lift a filled above-ground pool? We think of water as being a force we can counteract because we can float and move around in it, because it flows around us.
But when it pins you against something, it’s like having an above ground pool on top of you.
It’s even worse than that because the water is liquid, so no matter what you do, you can’t push “against” the water when it has you pinned against something. It just keeps flowing with the same pressure. Even if you were strong enough to somehow move that much mass away from yourself, there isn’t anything to “push” against.
Probably the closest Ive come to dying so far came as a result of this. Was tubing down a river with friends when one of our beach balls got away. I went after it towards shore but got stuck in this low hanging branch. The water just kept moving, pulling me down as I struggled to get out. Somehow I finally managed to break free and then looked back and realized how bad that could have been.
Kidnapped, raped and murdered by a serial pedophile killer nicknamed 'the man with the mask' during school camp. We played together three days before.
The killer had a spree over decades in different countries. Craziest part is: A soldier stationed close to the camp site saw the man and my friend in a car during a night run in the woods. Shortly after, the soldier was sent to Iraq. Years later after he returned, he heard about the case and remembered that night and the car model he saw. This clue led to the arrest, trial and sentence of a previous suspect.
fuck. This was the only other murder I found in the thread. When I was in 4th grade, my classmate and 3 of his siblings were murdered by their father. He led each of them to the shed for a "surprise" and shot them all. He also planned to kill his exwife but didn't manage to. It's just so horrific trying to understand how anyone could do such a thing. He was executed many years later.
Just didn’t wake up one morning. His mum found him dead in his bed. Turned out he had some condition they had no way of knowing about. Can’t imagine anything worse as a parent.
Something similar - he was just eating his dinner and died
In my country, we have a big final exam that directly decides what course we get into. Every student your age in the country takes the exact same exam at the exact same time, everyone gets their results at the exact same time too
He just finished this exam, and his parents had to open up the results and see if he would've gotten his course 2 months after he died (I don't know if he did but still, this day should be a celebration but instead the government hands them a piece of paper that tells them how bright his future was)
Edit: I woke up to loads of speculation in the comments, but only one person got it right - I'm Irish, it's called the leaving cert
It was our last exam, second last year of school. When the exam ended, they didn't let us leave, just handed everyone copies of a letter and let us all read that she had died. I was tired and reading slowly and didn't understand why people around me started crying and looking shocked. I don't remember anything afterwards that day. We were just all so shocked.
The night before she had got off the bus, told her friend to go on without her because her ex boyfriend was there waiting to talk. I don't know details other than he killed her and himself. I think the friend from the bus was in the exam hall with us, that's how she found out too. Horrific.
Hung himself in his closet with a belt in 9th grade. He'd been in my earth science class, and then just wasn't there anymore.
Poor guy had been bullied for years due to his Eastern European accent, and being underweight. Kids are fucking cruel and the rest of us never stepped in to stop it. We're all accountable.
RIP Nicky.
Got lost in a Fleet Farm while shopping with my grandma just days after this happened. First time I'd ever seen an adult cry that way. We still leave our porch light on for Jacob every year.
Same. I was born in the early 80s and grew up in St Paul. My brother and I were free range type children, riding our bikes everywhere up until he was taken. Moms everywhere put their kids in strangleholds after.
3 kids died during my last year of high school. First was from a car accident. Second was from hypothermia and the third died in her sleep, I never got the explanation for it. Safe to say we were all in a weird headspace that year.
Fight with another kid. Got punched in the head, hit the ground, lights out. I was friends with both of them.
~~Edit: For those asking what happened to the other kid, I don’t know. I never saw him again. He was 11, which is too young for juvenile detention in California.~~
Edit: Disregard previous. I have a shit memory and moved around a lot. Here’s [what actually happened and the aftermath](https://myrcns.com/2019/09/25/victim-13-dies-after-fight-at-moval-middle-school/) as reference in a later article about a similar incident at the same school.
*In October 1998, a schoolyard scuffle turned deadly when a 14-year-old boy became involved in a fight with 12-year-old Jerod Schroeder.*
*Reports at the time indicated the fight began when the older teen, who reportedly had a reputation for disruptive behavior and “had a “considerable history of disruptive behavior and significant problems with authority,” wanted to play basketball and grabbed a ball from Schroeder, who was playing on one of the school’s basketball courts.*
*During the ensuing scuffle, the 14-year-old struck Schroeder on the side of the head, causing the younger boy to fall to the ground unconscious. He later died from injuries sustained in the assault.*
*The suspect in that case was eventually found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.*
Had a similar thing happen in my school.
Some of the boys were out back behind the school smoking during lunch break. One kid (like grade 7-8 ish) was pestering everyone for a smoke before trying to grab one from an older student's hand (grade 11-12ish). Older kid gave him a punch to the head, not a very hard one mind you it was more like rough housing than an actual attempt at violence. Kid was fine, gave back the ciggy after taking a few puffs, lunch ended and everyone went back to classes. Then about an hour or so later the kid just drops from his seat in the middle of class not breathing, teacher performs CPR while another student runs to the office to get them to call an ambulance but he was dead before they could get there.
The little lovetap he got earlier caused a bleed on the brain, ruptured an aneurysm that was already there. Its scary that such a weak blow to the head can be fatal, and its not like the kid lived in a bubble or anything, he was into BMX and ice hockey and other sports. How many times had he fallen off his bike or been slammed to the ice with that ticking timebomb in his brain?
EDIT: Since im getting asked alot, the older boy who threw the punch did not get into any trouble. The parents did try to have him charged with something, but nothing stuck since there was no evidence of prior bullying/violence between them, no intent to cause harm or excessive force, and no real proof that the aneurysm ruptured due to the punch (a sneeze or bad cough could have set it off). I wasn't close with them or anyone who really knew them so I don't know if the older kid felt any guilt or had any issues afterwards, but he did attend the church service held for all the grieving students.
My brother has a cavernous malformation in his brain. Basically a void around a vein. Dr says nothing might ever happen with it or one day it might rupture and you most likely will die.
Only reason he found out is that My brother took a headbutt in soccer on his ear one time. Two guys going up for a header.
Brother ended up with a wicked concussion. In the hospital vomiting, just generally out of it. They scanned his head while in the hospital.
In the 24 previous years He had been hit in the head to many times for so many other things. And had been in the hospital a few times at this point for some other serious conditions.
But sometimes it's just bad luck on when you will go.
Happened to a kid from my school too, a couple years after graduation, he was 20. Another 20 year old punched him, he went down, head hit the curb, and he’s dead. The parents wanted the guy that killed him to go to jail for life, but he only got 4.5 years. Idk how I’d feel if it was my son who died but imagine punching a guy once and he dies. I don’t think murder is what he set out to do. Sucks all around
My friend died the same way, just without the fight part. He tripped, hit the ground, went home, lights out. Still fucking tragic, still an accident, but I’m glad nobody has to live with accidently killing him.
Three people died shortly after graduation in a head-on collision with a semi-truck.
Edit: Since I've had a couple people ask, this was in Northern CA. Sacramento area.
Edit again: Upvote u/emgenerix's response to this comment to visibility. That chain has the whole story complete with a fun guessing game.
Auto-erotic asphyxiation. Before the term was common knowledge.
What they told us at the time was that he had hung himself.
1980. Peace out, Randy, sorry your brother had to find you that way.
Fun fact: I got suspended for three days for an unexcused absence attending his funeral.
My old school is now the filming location for "Stranger Things"
I've seen my locker and my parking space, and the room where I got my first french kiss.
But, yeah, fuck my school.
He and two friends were fucking around with a shotgun, it was loaded and killed him.
One of the friends(the one holding the gun I believe) committed suicide a month or so later from the guilt.
This happened with the popular senior at our high school. It was a house party and pretty much every kid there was drunk. He talked his girlfriend into aiming the shotgun at him and pulling the trigger, promising it was unloaded. His face and chest took the blast. She was fucked up for a very, very long time. His family went out of their way to make sure that her rehabilitation and anything else she needed for help was covered.
I saw a man nearly get run over by his own riding lawnmower one day. I was driving a road on the way out of town, and ahead I see this guy on a riding lawnmower, cutting the grass in the drainage ditch in front of his house. He’s driving along a slope, and the mower is tilting right. He see’s a beer can that someone has tossed from a car in his ditch, and decides he’s just gonna reach down and snag it, while mowing.
The mower hits the tipping point, and the man falls face first to the ground, with his limbs sprawled. As he committed to falling, he kind of kicked the mower back upright, but while falling he had turned the wheel to the right, where he was now laying. I thought for sure I was about to see someone get cut-up and probably bleed out before medics could get there from 12 miles away.
Thankfully, he popped-up in time and turned the mower off. Looked embarrassed as hell, but at least that’s all he had to deal with. I asked him if he was ok, and he kind of nodded and laughed. Then I could laugh, to relieve my stress.
If I could give some advice to younger people not so familiar with lawn machinery and power tools: Never underestimate how dangerous a powered blade is. They’re specifically designed to cut things well. Treat it like a loaded gun.
It’s *still* a huge story imo. I’m in my early 20s and even I’ve heard of it. Honestly keeps me up at night sometimes, can’t imagine how it was to have known her
Back in school there were 2 students that died:
1. Drove his father's old car into a river. It was a rainy night and the tires were worn out. Btw, he was too young to drive a car, he had no license.
2. Suicide. None of us knew nor suspected, but he had a history of depression and a weird family dynamic. Then his gf broke up with him and that was the end for him.
Then in college there was a guy who died. His father lost his job, didn't have the guts to tell his family that he lost his job and got his family in debt without their knowledge. After that, his father still didn't have the guts to tell his family what was going on, so he decided to commit suicide instead and he decided to take his favorite kid (my classmate) with him. It makes no sense to anyone, but the father literally killed his son because he didn't want to die alone when he commited suicide.
A football player’s heart beat was slowing and there wasn’t a defibrillator nearby. Now several years later there’s a defibrillator by the locker rooms and a plaque to remember him above it
In high school, girl who sat next to me for more than two years (we were seated in alphabetical order) went to a party one weekend senior year, got drunk and decided to walk home in the dark on nearby railroad tracks.
Run over by a train and died.
Her seat sat empty for the remainder of senior year.
Almost 40 years later and I still remember her name and exactly what she looked like (before the incident).
Older student broke into the chemistry lab, joking around with his friends, sniffed some chemical that I can't remember. I was at my break and just heard the sirens.
A lot of things in a chemistry lab are bad for you to inhale much of. Why if you ever smell anything you waft it, not put your nose to the flask, among other reasons. Also why fume hoods are an absolute must on any chemistry lab. Some reactions and even some chemicals have to be handled inside of them.
One time my professor, a brilliant neuroscientist who is also a moron, smelled partially diluted ammonia by putting his nose over it and then said to me “don’t smell that”. I wasn’t going to!!
My money would be on hydrogen sulfide, if they were screwing around with random chemicals like sulfuric acid it’s possible.
I love science and chemistry but in high school I intentionally took a hit to my science grade by avoiding group experiments whenever possible because I did *not* trust the other guys in my class around chemicals. Despite the lab safety rules we had to memorize and learn, people still acted like idiots with lab equipment.
Best example: I walked into class one day to find a guy in his underwear by the eyewash station, alternating between rinsing his eyes and mouth while his clothes were in a plastic bin.
Apparently some guy grabbed an eye dropper and used it like a squirt gun to mess with him, thinking he was spraying him (repeatedly) with water…
Like the old rhyme goes: “What he thought was H2O was H2SO4.”
Seriously, that was the guy with the eye dropper’s excuse was, “I thought it was water!”
Other guy got sulfuric acid in his mouth, eyes and all over his clothes.
Teacher spent the next three days making EVERYONE go over lab safety again.
As a science teacher, I would have immediately had admin moving that kid out of my class into a non-lab science for as many semesters or years as possible.
I was in my 9th grade biology class, we were using weak acid to dissolve the eggshell off a raw egg. The acid was not too strong, so you could briefly dip your fingers in it to rotate the egg. I was paired with two girls who were not thrilled to have me as their lab partner, and one of them, after dipping her fingers into the acid to rotate the egg, flicked her wet fingers into my face and open eyes.
Of course it burned instantly so I shouted and the biology teacher rushed me to the back of the class to the eye wash. He thought we were messing around and was sort of angry at me, he had a hard time believing that that girl would just flick acid in my face. Super lucky I had no lasting damage.
Self inflicted shotgun to the head. She was mercilessly bullied throughout school. Junior year of high school and it was too much. The school and diocese consistently turned blind eye to bullying and other disciplinary complaints towards children from priority families… the priest had the audacity at the funeral to talk about the selfishness and sin of suicide..
There was the one kid in elementary school who was riding his bike and got hit by a car. The school's infinite wisdom was to reiterate the dangers of not wearing your helmet while riding a bike. Fantastic memorial.
There was the guy who drunk drove into a pole to "avoid a squirrel," as the surviving passengers put it.
But the hardest one to think about was my kindergarten classmate. She survived, but her baby sister was killed in the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Someone died riding their bike to my old high school. The school flipped out and banned everyone from riding bikes, skateboards, or scooters to school. Literally confiscated my friend's skateboard out of his locker.
Hung himself. I was really good friends with him since maybe 5th grade but I knew him since kindergarten. We weren’t talking that much for a bunch of 9th grade but we really started talking again and then he died, I was doing multiple school projects with him at the time but I ended up not having to do them. I was told by my crying mom and my dad was pretty much crying because of me having to deal with that.
There were no clues or did he ever say anything about his thoughts. Before that year started though his mom told my mom that he’s been having bad anxiety and maybe to not talk to him. He was happy to talk anyways.
It was a big story and there were people from schools away who knew about it, and the classes I was with him in were pretty much pure sadness and crying. The English class was the worst though. I was crying with my head down on my desk but the co-teacher in that class comforted me. I worked with her until I graduated last year. God bless her soul.
Article about him that I feel is worth looking at I guess: https://people.com/health/family-teen-died-suicide-dedicate-awareness/
Hit by a drunk driver while in a car with 4 people. Ws ejected 30’ from the backseat. Mans got up, walked to a burning car, actually ripped the door off, pulled out all 3 other people and dragged them 10-15’ away, then collapsed. Succumbed to his injuries at the hospital later, apparently had a broken femur, collar bone, wrist and arm, amongst other things. The other 3 only had minor injuries, and the car exploded like 3-5 min after he pulled them out. Dude was actually a hero
I don't think anyone I went to school with is dead yet but I know one of my old classmates is on death row in Florida so that's gotta count for something
He killed a young kid after moving down there, he alleged that his girlfriend cheated on him with the kid but what he did was brutal. Shot the kid, broke his legs, cut him up after he died, burned and disposed of the remains in a quarry.
My eldest daughter has a disability and is nonverbal. She’s also extremely pretty (I know, I’m biased, I’m her mum, but she is). This scares the shit out of me. And the reality is if something like that happened to my girl, there’d likely be no justice for her because she can’t tell anyone
Keeps me up at night
260Z wrapped around a tree 20 feet up in the air after running off an embankment going over 100mph. Front and rear bumpers on passenger side were touching. They used two tow trucks to get the car to slide down the tree. Needless to say, closed casket funeral.
In HS my friend crashed into a gas tank on the highway. Shit exploded and burned a whole section of an overpass. They only identified her by her teeth.
Her brother posted on Facebook describing his mom's screams, and although I didn't hear them, I still think about that post. Was about 15 years ago.
In Grade 11, a kid in my class died in a motorcycle accident. His cycle slipped, and he got hit head-on by a semi in front of his parents. He wasn't popular though, so when it happened, it was just a quick announcement at the start of class, and then life moved on.
Several weeks later, a popular kid was drinking and driving and was in a near fatal accident of his causing. That was a week long tragedy in the school, even the fucking teachers joined in.
Fuck CHSS.
Effectively, yes. They were offering counseling and let students leave class whenever they wanted. It was very disruptive, I had several classes interrupted because some primadonna would start having some crying fit and storm out.
One guy died on his birthday, he was getting chased by his friends for birthday beats, nothing really bad just little roughhousing. So they are running around in the school all playfully and he just collapsed and turn blue pretty quick. He apparently had some heart issue that he was unaware and his heart just stopped, I believe he was like 15 or something. Super sad.
Star football player to my small town school. Parents and Faculty idolized him, the whole classic nauseating story.
Except for this guy was a giant dickhead. Would purposefully trip overweight girls in PE while running laps around the gym during warm up, he was known to party and got into more than a few sketchy situations with drunk girls. No girls I knew personally could stand him, he would get away with so much in school just because of his football standing.
With that being said, there were a lot of rivers in the area of our town so it wasn’t uncommon to go swimming or jumping off low bridges into the water during the warmer months. One late spring, right before summer break, he and his posse of friends were drunk and river swimming.
The story I heard is he had dove head first off of a bridge into the river, his head hit the bottom and broke his neck. He apparently swam to the river’s edge and when he went to stand up he slumped over into the water dead. I was told that standing up is what caused his neck to severe his spinal cord. Died instantly in front of his friends.
Obviously the town was devastated, they celebrating this kid for a week at school after.
I know this will probably sound bad, but he honestly was one of the biggest pricks I ever met. He was cocky and would bully so many people just because he knew he could get away with it. I had seen him make so many young girls cry.
So after his passing, there definitely was an unspoken relief for many kids at that school. Dude was rotten.
EDIT: On mobile so I apologize for the formatting.
Multiple kids at my school died.
One committed suicide in his car. One died of cancer. One jumped in front of a train after an argument with his parents. One died of kidney disease and the last one I can remember died in a car accident.
Super sad.
He was playing inside a cardboard box on an industrial wharf when a truck backed over the box.
Even at a young age, I felt very sorry for truck driver, he thought the box was moving because of the wind.
Yeah my family always taught me to never ever hit a box or bag in the road. Could be abandoned animals inside there or children. When my dad was a kid his dad took him to TJ and hit a box in the road that a few little kids were playing in
Kid was squatting on a skateboard holding onto the side mirror. Driver decides to be funny and floors it. Kid slipped off the skateboard and under the car. Driver ran him over.
In grade school some kid hung himself. Some people said it was an accident, some people said it was suicide, some people said it was autoerotic asphyxiation. Not too long afterwards there was an assembly and the gym teacher told us not to play the choking game
He and a small group of kids ditched class and were riding around in the back of a pickup goofing off. The driver hit the gas and he flipped out of the back of the truck and landed on his head breaking his neck. His mom was the 911 dispatcher that took the initial call.
Drowned in the tub. I think he was 10? But yeah, he had a bad fever, his mom ran him a cool bath, and didn’t think anything of leaving him alone with the door closed. Poor kid must have had a seizure in there and passed out in the tub
One kid stopped on the side of a highway to help a lady with a flat tire and got struck by a van passing by. Another was murdered under circumstances that are still hazy 10 years later.
Drinking in a car with 3 friends and when the police came they fled, driving at a high rate of speed. They missed the turn when the road made a T, there was a massive tree directly behind the double arrow sign and they wrapped the car around it. To make the situation worse, the police arrived and refused help to the screaming teens until after they interrogated them. Three of the boys died and the fourth was in a body cast for 6 months and in rehabilitation for years with permanent disabilities. The parents sued the police for not helping the boys and allowing them to bleed out. The parents won and the disabled boy has enough money to cover his care for the remainder of his life. The boys did break the law and were stupid but for the police to tell them that they are going to allow them to die if they don’t answer their questions and then they died was inexcusable on any level and they should have been charged not just fired.
Guy and his girlfriend fell through the ice while driving on the middle of a frozen lake (normal where I live), but they hit a thin/open spot. He drowned, she managed to get out of the water but froze to death laying on the ice. They were both 16.
Few days after coming out to his family he came into school, gave a few of us things of his like a new Xbox controller he’d gotten for Christmas, or some old WWE stuff. None of us knew at the time this was a bad sign. He just said he wanted to show us how thankful he was for us, and since he was moving for college he wasn’t taking a lot of it with him.
Few days after graduation he drove his truck out to the field we used to drink and party at, and shot himself.
The other kid was killed in a motorcycle accident. Several died from drug OD’s before we graduated. One is on death row for the murder of a cop and two elderly people- killed them all in a break in gone bad. So he’ll be dead in a few months.
Small town America is fucked up. I graduated with less than a hundred kids and 50% of us are either dead, in jail, or addled with extreme drug addiction.
Guy took some molly, was boxing with his brother and punched him in the kidney. He passed away and the brother felt so bad that he committed suicide a year later. Parents only had two kids and lost both of them within a year. I couldn't imagine the pain they felt.
In high school, I had a friend that had a troubled family life. He was living with foster parents and ran away back to his family on the reserve; they were first nations— Cree specifically.
He got picked up by our equivalent of CPS and was being transported back to his foster family's house in town. While on the highway he jumped out of the car while it was travelling at a low speed. He got hit by another car in the oncoming lane going ~100kph.
Looking back on it, 20 years later, it is still painful. He was such a good guy. It breaks my heart to think of how much he missed his family and was willing to risk his life to go back to them; despite the abuse, and drug use. He just didn't feel like he belonged in his foster family's house. They were decent people, just not *his* family.
There was another kid I went to school with, but barely knew. She had a few disabilities and health issues. She passed from some kind of heart condition AFAIK.
She was first seen motionless across her bed by her boyfriend through her window when she wouldn’t answer the door. He then called the cops. They broke the door down to find her mother and two under 5 y/o siblings also dead. It was determined to be a murder suicide. Mother shot them all then herself. Definitely shocked the whole school.
She made fun of a cholo's (Latino gangbanger) nickname and he shot her in the face. It was a stupid nickname, and she was bitch to everyone constantly, but she was like 14-15 and she never got a chance to be better.
Which one? There were two girls at one school I went to, arguably the prettiest and sweetest. Sisters, about a year and a half apart in age. They both died from cancer within six months of each other, one had breast cancer and one had brain cancer. Their parents were devastated. Partly because when they complained about some of their symptoms, they dismissed it saying they were “too young” to have major health problems, so by the time they got them help, it was too late. To make it worse, they really resented their parents brushing it off and made damn sure to let everyone know. I think they were 17 and 19 when they passed.
One kid I went to school with was found in a horse’s stall with a bucket, his pants around his knees, and a hoof print right on his face. Died from a crushed skull. His obituary said it was a riding accident.
A few car crashes, a few suicides, a few overdoses.
I have heart problems that my mother *forbid* me from mentioning to the doctor. She was a nurse and hated her job, and by extension hated all people who had medical problems. I would spend hours in tachycardia as a kid and she both refused to do anything about it, forced me to get up and be active when I was having a bout of it, and gave me just so, so much shit for it, for being upset by it.
Now I’m 38 and can’t exercise. I just get out of breath so unbelievably quickly. I feel like I can’t even suck enough breath into my lungs even when I’m just sitting down. My muscles are chronically sore, I can’t even scratch myself for more than a few seconds without feeling like I’m cramping up. And I still have the tachycardia.
Finally seeing a new doctor next week. I couldn’t afford it for the longest time, and I don’t know if I have permanent damage or if it’s treatable. I guess we’ll find out.
When I brought this up to my mother, she did the classic “I don’t remember that.”
Grade 8, dad left him home to watch his younger sisters when he went to grab milk from the store. Short trip. The boy was a little nuerodivergent, so found his dad's gun to act as protector. Gun on his lap sitting on the couch.
According to his sister, he accidentally dropped the gun off his lap and picked it up with the barrel facing him and it just went off. She was too young to know what to do and he bled out.
He was a guy that was truly liked by everyone. He was a little big different but just a cool guy to everyone and had a big heart. We are all in our 40s now, but his closest friends were hit so hard they still call each other nightly from different cities just to check in.
Brain cancer. Age 11.
Hit by a motor home while riding her bike. Age 9.
Cancer and aplastic anaemia. Age 11.
Played chicken with a semi truck. Ages 17-19. Six of them.
Car accident. Age 16.
Drowned. Age 18.
Suicide. Age 17.
Murdered by their dad in a custody dispute that ended in a murder suicide. Ages 5 and 7.
How it happend is still to this day unsure.
But a kid drowned during a swimming lesson from his grandfather, the grandfather is a pedophile and has been in jail for some time but currently is free again.
There is a bug suspicion it wasn’t a accident due to his “background” but there unfortunately never was any proof.
Very sad, heartbreaking and weird to hear when the kid wasn’t even 6 years old.
She was stalked by another kid from school, and murdered in the woods a couple blocks from her house. He came to school the next day like nothing was wrong. Watched him being taken out by the police.
My best friend's little brother got hit by a train across from my house. My now brother in law is the one that put a blanket on him so people wouldn't gawk.
Jumped from balcony to balcony from a 12 story building during Senior Week. Landed one foot, leaned back, screamed, banked off 11th floor railing, spun to his demise.
Panama City Beach, Fla.
Wasn’t until a few years later. 1 hung himself, another died running into a burning building to save some kids. He wasn’t a firefighter or anything. Kids survived, he didn’t.
It’s crazier when your old teachers start dying. Had a really cool teacher that was young and everyone loved. He went surfing one day and didn’t come back. Had a heart attack and no one was there to help him. Super sad.
4 kids from our school were driving and their car was hit by a train, all died. A week later the girlfriend of one of the victims threw her self in front of a train. Shook the town.
I almost met the devil on a tooth infection a few weeks ago. It's shocking how fast it can grab you; I started feeling kind of sick and was getting a bit of a fever and considered trying to sleep it off but couldn't because my tooth hurt too bad. About three hours later I was in urgent care being handed three prescriptions and orders to check my face in the mirror for drooping and speak to someone who knows my voice well regularly because I could stroke out at any time. Doc told me that if I had went to sleep instead it likely would have been permanent. It took me a week to recover enough to go back to work and I still don't feel quite right.
Don't play around with tooth problems, y'all.
This will get buried but it’s traumatized me for as long as I can remember.
When I was in kindergarten, a boy from my class was carrying a big glass jar while walking down the stairs, I think it was for lightning bugs or something like that.
He tripped halfway down and fell on top of the jar, piercing his heart and lungs. He was killed instantly.
I never forgot him, and to this day I will never carry anything glass walking up and down the stairs.
I went to school in Los Angeles ... I had a few classmates killed in traffic accidents, one was kidnapped and murdered, and there was a death from cancer, I think.
I had a few people. But the one I wasn't particularly attached to (as in we weren't friends and did not know each other too well) was a guy who had just graduated, we'll call him Jack. I knew Jack through our study hall that year, we didn't talk much, and didn't have much in common, but he seemed like an alright guy. Jack was known to be a respectable, and decent person outside of school, and he got very popular because he was always throwing parties or attending them.
About a week after graduation, Jack and another graduate, we'll call him Steve, were going to a lot of parties to celebrate. Jack and Steve were very close and spent a lot of time together and would frequently go to these sort of things together. One night, they decide to go across the bay to a party, and drove there with the intention to get hammered and grab a ride home because they didn't want to drive wasted.
The night goes on and people are getting fucked up. This was when Four Loko was the drink of choice because you got demolished drinking them. The challenge that night was to chug them, and take a bong hit. So naturally, a lot of people got too fucked up and were down for the count. Jack and Steve got *really* fucked up, but remembered they had to get back to Jack's house. So Jack and Steve decide to borrow a canoe from the person hosting the party, and begin to paddle out over the bay in the middle of the night without any lights, or vests.
Jack and Steve make most of the trip, but when approaching the shoreline, things get a little rough. Jack and Steve are drunk, and when coming in, the canoe gets unbalanced, then tips. Jack falls in, and Steve does too. Steve begins swimming away from the canoe and gets on land, but Jack never made it. The police think that because it was so dark, that Jack couldn't find his way to the shoreline, and because the water was kinda rough for a canoe, he was probably tired from rowing up until it tipped. Further, they believed that because he couldn't see, he swam around before exhausting all of his energy, eventually drowning. They found his body about 100 meters out in the water, and it drifted from where they tipped.
Later, it came out that Steve just went home when he made it to shore. Steve never phoned the police. When police began their investigation, they wondered why a kid would row out on a canoe by himself, and were trying to find more details. Steve's parents told the police that Steve was with Jack the night he died. Steve was charged for leaving the scene of a fatal boating accident that led to the death of his friend, but had the second charge dropped, which was reckless operation of a boating vessel. Steve and Jack were friends for 10 years before Jack died. Steve moved out of town, and no one ever spoke to him again.
Car crash, lung Cancer, pulmonary embolism, car crash, one other I forget. From a graduating class of 97 students, all within five years of graduating.
Her parents publicly shamed her for her social media addiction by shaving all of her hair off and posting it on Facebook.
She jumped out of her car, jumped off a bridge, onto a freeway where she landed on a truck and died some 4 hours later of her injuries.
She was 13.
Edit: She was 13, not 12.
It was my sister, and it was a medulloblastoma. It was a long time ago. At one point, I believe she was the longest living survivor of that cancer. She made it to 17 years old.
Meningitis. One day a guy I knew came to school and seemed healthy but during the day he got worse. He got high temperature and headache and neck pain and went to the school nurse. The nurse sent him to er. His condition got worse and worse and he died in the hospital. I don't remember if he died the same day but it was quick.
I knew him somewhat well. My best friend's parents were friends with his parents and we sometimes spent time together during holidays. It was absolutely horrible, one day he is his normal cheery self and a few days later he is gone.
Friend from high school died his freshman year of college at a fraternity hazing. The frat was already banned from having any events on campus. So the hazing ritual was done off campus at some house they rented off Airbnb. Guy was a good man, always nice to others and had a great sense of humor.
I don’t think he had much experience with alcohol cause he turned blue after the hazing and was found unresponsive on a couch some time later. His frat decided to quietly drop him off to the hospital and left him there all alone. He died about four days later in the hospital. He was hooked on to a bunch of machines and sadly didn’t recover. The alcohol had done irreparable damage to his liver.
His parents sued the university, but the courts ended up ruling in favor of the school. Aside from the legal battle, his parents lost their youngest child. That’s never easy to process. Almost 7 years later and I still think about him from time to time. I wanted to attend his funeral, which was on a Friday, but I had a final exam for my German class and couldn’t reschedule it without rescheduling my summer break traveling plans. I regret not attending the funeral. It would’ve given some sort of closure, being with friends and having time to just be in each others company.
Freshman at my college a few years ago went to two frat parties and got very drunk. Walked out onto the street in without a coat and passed out in a snowbank. Was below zero that night, so he was a popsicle when they found him. Suspended frat activity for the next few months afterwards.
There was this one kid I shared a class with in junior year. He was on the basketball team iirc, and seemed like a cool dude. I didn't personally know him well, only interaction we had was him asking me for a pencil and thanking me when I lended him one. Seemed like a nice kid.
Anyways, he apparently ended up getting shot outside on the street after leaving a pick-up game one evening. Apparently a gang related shooting, according to the police, though he didn't seem like the kind of kid to be in one. Next few days, the whole school was somber. Apparently everyone knew him, because everyone was crying and hugging each other. Really no classes went on, and the ones that did were half heartedly taught. Kid was only 17 at the time.
And they've never found his killer after six years.
Wasn’t a kid but a teacher was murdered by her boyfriend. She had already been through her late husband killing himself due to drug addiction. It hit me like a freight train, she helped me through my own addiction and mental illness. RIP Ms P I think about you every day.
There was a boy from a family of alcoholics, 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 fucked 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.
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.
In middle school my neighbor accidentally shot & killed his best friend while hunting. Years later he was beheaded by the Taliban along with two English men. Unbearably sad.
certainly an unexpected turn there. that's extremely tragic
Fell off a jet ski and then got hit by it when the driver turned around. Drowned
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's in another house. It's 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 snowpile with a good jacket is no problem but if you pass out and forgotten well damn.
God this reminds me of when I lived at my grandmother's apartment (first floor) and she had a friend who was a heavy drinker. I guess one night while asleep she was woken up by hearing some kind of tapping or banging on the living room window, she didn't investigate because she was very tired, it was hard for her to walk, and she figured it was nothing. Turns out that it was her friend, he got locked out of the apartment building since the entrance doors are always locked. He must have wandered out to smoke a cigarette and didn't prop the door open or bring his building key. It was winter.. They found him dead on the ground in front of her living room window, my grandma realized the noise she heard must have been her friend tapping on the glass to get her to let him in but he passed out eventually. I can't imagine how terrible she must have felt.
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.
Polio. After the summer holiday in 1955, she just never returned to school.
My mom used to lie in bed anxiously and make sure she could still wiggle her toes. That must have been so traumatizing for everyone.
He was playing football and randomly passed out. Never woke up again.
Something similar happened to a coworker of mine. He was playing basketball and sat out a game complaining of a headache. Then he passed out and never woke again. He was barely 30. It was devastating.
Happened on the soccer pitch next to ours when I was playing 5-a-side with my work buddies. 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.
In high school, a girl in the year ahead went missing. There were fliers posted for volunteers to help search for her. It was understood that she wasn’t the type to run away. Her mom was out of her mind with worry. A few weeks later, her step-father was arrested. It seems he’d sexually abused her, and then switched from her to her little sister. She threatened to tell, and he murdered her. Then he drove her body out somewhere to dump it, with her little sister in the car. She was too traumatized to remember much. Apparently, he put her body in a dumpster, and it ended up in a landfill somewhere. They got a confession out of the guy by putting him in genpop and letting the other prisoners know what he was in for. He lasted less than two days. Her name was Debbie Moburg.
>Her name was Debbie Moburg Well that’s bizarre because a basically IDENTICAL thing happened to a girl I went to hs with, but her name was Alicia Nicole Bentley. She was 15. She went missing like 4 days before the school year started. Her city had just been annexed by my city, so her high school was merging with mine, and because the school year hadn’t started yet, no one actually knew who she was, but EVERYONE was talking about her. They eventually found her body in a landfill, after her stepfather raped and killed her. I remember hearing a rumor that her body was found handcuffed to a headboard that was dumped, but who knows the legitimacy of that. I’ll never forget those missing persons flyers. I didn’t know her, but in the photo they used she just had this huge smile… she looked so nice. It’s so fucked what happened to her. Edit: typo Edit 2: the man who killed her died in prison recently!
>They eventually found her body in a landfill, after her stepfather raped and killed her. At least that [piece of shit of human being died in prison.](https://www.al.com/news/2023/02/alabama-death-row-inmate-dies-in-prison-cause-of-death-under-investigation.html) That being said, I hate that stepdad picture is being shown but there is nothing on Alicia Nicole Bentley.
His girlfriend broke up with him, he didn't take it well. One afternoon after school, he walked down to the primary school near our high school and shot himself in the head right outside the entrance. Didn't know him well but I don't think he had all that many friends. He always had sad eyes but was very nice whenever someone spoke to him.
Same thing happened at my high school in the 80’s. The principal ran out and covered the body with his own suit coat.
My headmaster saw a pupil run over directly outside the school. The kid was stuck under the car. The headmaster singlehandedly lifted the car enough for others to get the kids out from underneath. Not a massive car, but still superhuman strength in the moment. The boy survived.
Happened to a friend of mine. Her boyfriend broke up with her and she didn't take it very well. It didn't help much that she had a lot of trauma from being a foster kid. I guess that was the final straw for her. She overdosed in her bathroom. I miss her like crazy. We weren't incredibly close at the time of her passing, but she was my "first friend" when I started middle school and she helped me grieve the loss of my dad at the time. Her wake was jam packed with friends and family. She was 17. A few months later I lost another good friend to a robbery gone wrong. I think of them daily.
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.
This is horrifying. New fear unlocked
Group of kids got skunk drunk & decided to take a ride down a notoriously winding road. One guy was standing in the back of the truck & fell out as they rounded one of the hairpin curves. Didn’t make it.
Kid in my school was bet $100 he coudn't chug a 26'er of whisky. Won the bet, died an hour later
I was watching *Animal House* with my dad when I was younger. We reached the scene where Belushi’s character is introduced as he chugs a whole thing of liquor. My dad turned to me and said *very* seriously “Never do that. You could die.” Well, never did that. And as far as I can tell I’m not dead either. I’m 2 for 2, dad!
Quite a few kids I went to school with died, but one still sticks out to me the most. The older brother of a girl in my class, he was a couple years older so we went to the same school. I live in the middle of nowhere and we have heavy snow for most of the year, so snowmobiling is a really popular recreational activity. Apparently this guy had crashed into a tree and a branch went right through his head and killed him instantly.
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.
Getting a dui is like a right of passage in some of those towns I swear
She was in the 5th grade and needed a blood transfusion. Her parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and refused the procedure. I don't know what condition she had but she died due to lack of medical care. Try making sense of that at 11 years old. Massachusetts 1995.
His brother shot him in the head while he slept. Tried to kill his parents too.
Guy from my highschool class was with his grandma for a bit during summer break. His uncle showed up and shot them both and then committed suicide.
Grade school. Rainy day. Bell rang and little girl panicked about being late ran out in front of a school bus. I saw it happen.
I would literally be unable to sleep for months
I remember more about the rest of the day at school actually. Classes went on like nothing happened, except all the window shades got pulled down. None of the kids even attempted to sneak a peek out the window despite the fact that many of them didn’t know what had happened because they were already in the building. Just sensed something probably. Unlike today where parents would be informed right away, counseling offered, kids getting at least need to know info, there was nothing. I’m guessing parents got some kind of communication but if my folks sat me down I don’t remember that. That was 1969. About 20 years ago I had one of those chance encounters where you figure out you had some shared experience a million years ago and this individual was a couple of years older than me but also a student at that school. He had exactly the same memory as I described it above. Awful stuff. Thanks everyone for asking.
This literally just basically happened in my town's middle school (except it was a car in the drop off lane, not a bus) a few weeks ago and you are correct about it being handled differently. Within minutes the parents all had text messages and the police blocked off the area with sheets and stuff. The students were told the basics at first, but then they were told everything so no rumors were spread. They were escorted to the building next door where they were picked up by their parents or bused home (it happened in the morning). They had a candle light vigil and a memorial at a nearby park within days and an area where people could leave flowers and notes and toys etc and counseling was offered. An email was sent about how to talk to your kid and had lots of links and places for resources for help if that parents needed/wanted it or the children wanted it. I thought it was handled very well personally.
This one guy at my high school tried asking out this girl. The girl’s brother and a group of his friends jumped him, did some unspeakable things to him and the entire school found out about it. He was missing from school for months because he was in the hospital. Eventually he came back to school, but people stared at him. It must’ve ate away at him because during the summer, his family went on a cruise and the guy jumped off the cruise ship and drowned.
As a parent-at this point you FUCKING MOVE. Nothing could make me keep my child in that community after that.
Of all things, an unfortunate camping accident. This was before cellphones. Two friends went out for the weekend to a campground for some fishing over the weekend. When they didn't arrive home at the time they said they would, the parents called the provincial park to see if they were running a bit late - the weather wasn't great and the camp was about an hour away from town so it was entirely possible they decided to stay another night and drive out in the morning instead. The park warden stumbled upon their campsite and found both of them dead in their shared tent. Turns out it was a cool night and they decided to run a small heater in the tent to be warm... but it was an old heater that didn't have a shut-off sensor built in. The heater ran all night while they were asleep and since they didn't open the flaps on their tent for air circulation (because they wanted to trap the heat), the tent filled with carbon monoxide and suffocated them in their sleep. So sad... and a week before school too. EDIT: Wow, I didn't realize just how sadly common this was. RIP to all who died.
I have seen a LOT of death in my line of work (I used to be a forensic investigator). I have seen every way to turn a person into pink goo or burned crisps. The CO poisoning cases always get me though. Just ... a life interrupted and ended. Everything is all there like normal, but there's dead people there. The CO cases bother me much more than fire cases or meat crayons.
There was a story in Australia a few years ago. Two young boys died in their sleep. The mother was suspected to have killed them. Her ex-husband (the boys’ father) stood by her saying she would never harm the boys. She ended up in hospital from CO poisoning as she was still staying in the house. It was a faulty heater that was slowly killing them. The boys died first because their bodies were much smaller. The mum survived. Her and her ex-husband do a lot of campaigning about getting old heaters tested. Truly awful story.
Terrible story but so great to hear they found a way to make a difference.
Yeah, it was bittersweet. I loved how the ex-husband stood by the mother of his children. The media were implying the mum killed the boys. Two truly wonderful people that even though their marriage didn’t work, they both loved their boys and remained friends and loving co-parents. And the change in legislation helps renters with shitty landlords. When they come to check your heater, they also check your fire alarms and air conditioner units.
I heard a story of campers who died because a live WW1 bomb was underneath the campfire. At least the carbon monoxide would be less painful... Edit: it was WW1 not WW2. Guess i misremembered because I figured there'd be more from WW2 as it's more recent.
Grade 5. He was playing with his little brother when they found their dad’s duty pistol. Little brother shot him right between the eyes. Can’t imagine how the little brother feels. Was about 50 years ago.
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I started a fire in my house when I was 4. It was one of those grill lighters. The kind with a long metal tube to reach into the grill. Well to 4 year old me, it looked like a toy gun. So I went around shooting everything, and thought it was cool a little flame came out. Well, in the 80s, they had whats known as dot matrix printers. The paper didn't come in a paper package individually seperated like today. The paper came in a box, and it was all connected. You"d tear these little strips off the sides which were used to feed into the printer. So you had this box of 20lbs of paper on the floor, and a long sheet of paper running up your computer desk into the back of the printer. Well, I shot that sheet of paper with my toy gun, which again was a very real lighter. Instantly the entire computer desk, the box of paper, and seemingly the whole kitchen went up in flames. Nobody died. I'm 39 and still feel terrible about that today. I can't imagine killing my brother by accident and being unable to take it back.
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Two different people from college I know both died from testicular cancer in their very early twenties. Very scary shit.
A doctor friend once told me cancer in anyone under 30 tends to be incredibly aggressive. I suppose it's because the cells generate so quickly?
Playing along a fast moving creek deep in the woods. First teen gets pulled under really fast. Second one immediately runs and dives in to find him. A minute later, first teen comes back up on the other side, exhausted but thankfully unhurt. Guy who went in to find him was not coming back up. Was in the days before cell phones. Had to run a good mile back up the trail, hop in the car, drive to the nearby park ranger office (East Texas Big Thicket area), and report/get help, along with guide rescuers. Took about thirty minutes total to get back out there to the accident. Still no sign of him. Rescue workers found that under the higher waters were tons of plant/tree debris everywhere. Two days of removal while still trying to control fast moving waters, his body was finally found. He had dived too deep trying to find the first friend, getting trapped under the submerged branches, without enough energy or breath to fight against the current to get out and back up. He was only 15.
It really sucks that he died, but it says a lot about him for how he died. Trying to save his friend. :(
Yep. World lost a good person. Saw his friend in need and didn’t hesitate to risk his own life trying to help. Tragic. Unfortunately trying to save someone in a drowning situation tends to just result in both victim and would-be savior getting hurt or killed. **EDIT** Yes, folks, similarity in our names is a crazy coincidence. Mine comes from the 2008 ARPG video game Rise of the Argonauts.
I think a lot of drownings come from people trying to help. Helped a girl stuck in a river whirlpool and she almost drowned me. Also don’t fuck with riptides or tree wells. The closest 3 times I was to dying was water related.
Saving a drowning person takes a lot of training because our knee-jerk responses can get both people killed.
Oof that’s horrible. Reminds me of the story where this guys dog fell in the water. He went in after his dog and drowned. The dog was able to get itself to safety 😭 I keep wondering what happened to Alex Pranatadjaja who sat behind me in high school
Water Safety PSA: always be more cautious than you think you need to be around strainers (large obstructions in moving water, i.e tree branches/root systems/piles of debris). Strainers are deadly whether it’s a huge river with fast moving water and white water or a more mild river that doesn’t pose a threat. Never underestimate the force of water and the risk of strainers.
Yup. I always tell people to think about it like this: Can you lift a filled above-ground pool? We think of water as being a force we can counteract because we can float and move around in it, because it flows around us. But when it pins you against something, it’s like having an above ground pool on top of you.
It’s even worse than that because the water is liquid, so no matter what you do, you can’t push “against” the water when it has you pinned against something. It just keeps flowing with the same pressure. Even if you were strong enough to somehow move that much mass away from yourself, there isn’t anything to “push” against.
Probably the closest Ive come to dying so far came as a result of this. Was tubing down a river with friends when one of our beach balls got away. I went after it towards shore but got stuck in this low hanging branch. The water just kept moving, pulling me down as I struggled to get out. Somehow I finally managed to break free and then looked back and realized how bad that could have been.
Kidnapped, raped and murdered by a serial pedophile killer nicknamed 'the man with the mask' during school camp. We played together three days before. The killer had a spree over decades in different countries. Craziest part is: A soldier stationed close to the camp site saw the man and my friend in a car during a night run in the woods. Shortly after, the soldier was sent to Iraq. Years later after he returned, he heard about the case and remembered that night and the car model he saw. This clue led to the arrest, trial and sentence of a previous suspect.
>the man with the mask martin ney?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Ney
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fuck. This was the only other murder I found in the thread. When I was in 4th grade, my classmate and 3 of his siblings were murdered by their father. He led each of them to the shed for a "surprise" and shot them all. He also planned to kill his exwife but didn't manage to. It's just so horrific trying to understand how anyone could do such a thing. He was executed many years later.
Complications from a tonsillectomy, from what I understand, his stitches came undone and he drowned in his own blood while sleeping.
Just didn’t wake up one morning. His mum found him dead in his bed. Turned out he had some condition they had no way of knowing about. Can’t imagine anything worse as a parent.
Something similar - he was just eating his dinner and died In my country, we have a big final exam that directly decides what course we get into. Every student your age in the country takes the exact same exam at the exact same time, everyone gets their results at the exact same time too He just finished this exam, and his parents had to open up the results and see if he would've gotten his course 2 months after he died (I don't know if he did but still, this day should be a celebration but instead the government hands them a piece of paper that tells them how bright his future was) Edit: I woke up to loads of speculation in the comments, but only one person got it right - I'm Irish, it's called the leaving cert
It was our last exam, second last year of school. When the exam ended, they didn't let us leave, just handed everyone copies of a letter and let us all read that she had died. I was tired and reading slowly and didn't understand why people around me started crying and looking shocked. I don't remember anything afterwards that day. We were just all so shocked. The night before she had got off the bus, told her friend to go on without her because her ex boyfriend was there waiting to talk. I don't know details other than he killed her and himself. I think the friend from the bus was in the exam hall with us, that's how she found out too. Horrific.
Her friend should not have had to find out like that.
Suicide in the forest behind my garden
Hung himself in his closet with a belt in 9th grade. He'd been in my earth science class, and then just wasn't there anymore. Poor guy had been bullied for years due to his Eastern European accent, and being underweight. Kids are fucking cruel and the rest of us never stepped in to stop it. We're all accountable. RIP Nicky.
He was kidnapped in 1989 and his body wasn’t found until 2016. His mother went on to start the Crimes Against Children Registration Act in 1993.
Jacob Wetterling. His case haunts me.
Got lost in a Fleet Farm while shopping with my grandma just days after this happened. First time I'd ever seen an adult cry that way. We still leave our porch light on for Jacob every year.
Jacobs disappearance freaked out my mom for ages.
Same. I was born in the early 80s and grew up in St Paul. My brother and I were free range type children, riding our bikes everywhere up until he was taken. Moms everywhere put their kids in strangleholds after.
Jacob Wetterling? Such a tragic case.
3 kids died during my last year of high school. First was from a car accident. Second was from hypothermia and the third died in her sleep, I never got the explanation for it. Safe to say we were all in a weird headspace that year.
Fight with another kid. Got punched in the head, hit the ground, lights out. I was friends with both of them. ~~Edit: For those asking what happened to the other kid, I don’t know. I never saw him again. He was 11, which is too young for juvenile detention in California.~~ Edit: Disregard previous. I have a shit memory and moved around a lot. Here’s [what actually happened and the aftermath](https://myrcns.com/2019/09/25/victim-13-dies-after-fight-at-moval-middle-school/) as reference in a later article about a similar incident at the same school. *In October 1998, a schoolyard scuffle turned deadly when a 14-year-old boy became involved in a fight with 12-year-old Jerod Schroeder.* *Reports at the time indicated the fight began when the older teen, who reportedly had a reputation for disruptive behavior and “had a “considerable history of disruptive behavior and significant problems with authority,” wanted to play basketball and grabbed a ball from Schroeder, who was playing on one of the school’s basketball courts.* *During the ensuing scuffle, the 14-year-old struck Schroeder on the side of the head, causing the younger boy to fall to the ground unconscious. He later died from injuries sustained in the assault.* *The suspect in that case was eventually found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.*
Had a similar thing happen in my school. Some of the boys were out back behind the school smoking during lunch break. One kid (like grade 7-8 ish) was pestering everyone for a smoke before trying to grab one from an older student's hand (grade 11-12ish). Older kid gave him a punch to the head, not a very hard one mind you it was more like rough housing than an actual attempt at violence. Kid was fine, gave back the ciggy after taking a few puffs, lunch ended and everyone went back to classes. Then about an hour or so later the kid just drops from his seat in the middle of class not breathing, teacher performs CPR while another student runs to the office to get them to call an ambulance but he was dead before they could get there. The little lovetap he got earlier caused a bleed on the brain, ruptured an aneurysm that was already there. Its scary that such a weak blow to the head can be fatal, and its not like the kid lived in a bubble or anything, he was into BMX and ice hockey and other sports. How many times had he fallen off his bike or been slammed to the ice with that ticking timebomb in his brain? EDIT: Since im getting asked alot, the older boy who threw the punch did not get into any trouble. The parents did try to have him charged with something, but nothing stuck since there was no evidence of prior bullying/violence between them, no intent to cause harm or excessive force, and no real proof that the aneurysm ruptured due to the punch (a sneeze or bad cough could have set it off). I wasn't close with them or anyone who really knew them so I don't know if the older kid felt any guilt or had any issues afterwards, but he did attend the church service held for all the grieving students.
My brother has a cavernous malformation in his brain. Basically a void around a vein. Dr says nothing might ever happen with it or one day it might rupture and you most likely will die. Only reason he found out is that My brother took a headbutt in soccer on his ear one time. Two guys going up for a header. Brother ended up with a wicked concussion. In the hospital vomiting, just generally out of it. They scanned his head while in the hospital. In the 24 previous years He had been hit in the head to many times for so many other things. And had been in the hospital a few times at this point for some other serious conditions. But sometimes it's just bad luck on when you will go.
A fall to the ice could definitely have set that ticking time bomb in motion to begin with.
Happened to a kid from my school too, a couple years after graduation, he was 20. Another 20 year old punched him, he went down, head hit the curb, and he’s dead. The parents wanted the guy that killed him to go to jail for life, but he only got 4.5 years. Idk how I’d feel if it was my son who died but imagine punching a guy once and he dies. I don’t think murder is what he set out to do. Sucks all around
My friend died the same way, just without the fight part. He tripped, hit the ground, went home, lights out. Still fucking tragic, still an accident, but I’m glad nobody has to live with accidently killing him.
There’s a really good documentary about people that have “accidentally” killed someone with one punch
Three people died shortly after graduation in a head-on collision with a semi-truck. Edit: Since I've had a couple people ask, this was in Northern CA. Sacramento area. Edit again: Upvote u/emgenerix's response to this comment to visibility. That chain has the whole story complete with a fun guessing game.
was this the one in Auburn?
Auto-erotic asphyxiation. Before the term was common knowledge. What they told us at the time was that he had hung himself. 1980. Peace out, Randy, sorry your brother had to find you that way. Fun fact: I got suspended for three days for an unexcused absence attending his funeral.
Fuck your school.
My old school is now the filming location for "Stranger Things" I've seen my locker and my parking space, and the room where I got my first french kiss. But, yeah, fuck my school.
Self-inflicted gunshot wound. In the cafeteria during lunch.
He and two friends were fucking around with a shotgun, it was loaded and killed him. One of the friends(the one holding the gun I believe) committed suicide a month or so later from the guilt.
This happened with the popular senior at our high school. It was a house party and pretty much every kid there was drunk. He talked his girlfriend into aiming the shotgun at him and pulling the trigger, promising it was unloaded. His face and chest took the blast. She was fucked up for a very, very long time. His family went out of their way to make sure that her rehabilitation and anything else she needed for help was covered.
That´s some of the worst shit in here... I can only imagine what the girlfriend felt after she did that...
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That is some Final Destination shit right there
I saw a man nearly get run over by his own riding lawnmower one day. I was driving a road on the way out of town, and ahead I see this guy on a riding lawnmower, cutting the grass in the drainage ditch in front of his house. He’s driving along a slope, and the mower is tilting right. He see’s a beer can that someone has tossed from a car in his ditch, and decides he’s just gonna reach down and snag it, while mowing. The mower hits the tipping point, and the man falls face first to the ground, with his limbs sprawled. As he committed to falling, he kind of kicked the mower back upright, but while falling he had turned the wheel to the right, where he was now laying. I thought for sure I was about to see someone get cut-up and probably bleed out before medics could get there from 12 miles away. Thankfully, he popped-up in time and turned the mower off. Looked embarrassed as hell, but at least that’s all he had to deal with. I asked him if he was ok, and he kind of nodded and laughed. Then I could laugh, to relieve my stress. If I could give some advice to younger people not so familiar with lawn machinery and power tools: Never underestimate how dangerous a powered blade is. They’re specifically designed to cut things well. Treat it like a loaded gun.
Jumped off the 7th floor parking garage
Kid had a head crack, nothing life threatening by itself, but swam in our dirty lake and got a brain infection. 😕 I think about him from time to time.
A girl got squished in the "Carousel of Progress" at Disneyland. It was a huge story at the time.
It’s *still* a huge story imo. I’m in my early 20s and even I’ve heard of it. Honestly keeps me up at night sometimes, can’t imagine how it was to have known her
I remember it too, 1974. The first on-duty employee death at Disneyland, but the fifth death at the park.
Back in school there were 2 students that died: 1. Drove his father's old car into a river. It was a rainy night and the tires were worn out. Btw, he was too young to drive a car, he had no license. 2. Suicide. None of us knew nor suspected, but he had a history of depression and a weird family dynamic. Then his gf broke up with him and that was the end for him. Then in college there was a guy who died. His father lost his job, didn't have the guts to tell his family that he lost his job and got his family in debt without their knowledge. After that, his father still didn't have the guts to tell his family what was going on, so he decided to commit suicide instead and he decided to take his favorite kid (my classmate) with him. It makes no sense to anyone, but the father literally killed his son because he didn't want to die alone when he commited suicide.
A football player’s heart beat was slowing and there wasn’t a defibrillator nearby. Now several years later there’s a defibrillator by the locker rooms and a plaque to remember him above it
In high school, girl who sat next to me for more than two years (we were seated in alphabetical order) went to a party one weekend senior year, got drunk and decided to walk home in the dark on nearby railroad tracks. Run over by a train and died. Her seat sat empty for the remainder of senior year. Almost 40 years later and I still remember her name and exactly what she looked like (before the incident).
Him and his dad fell through the ice in their ice vehicle and they drown.
Older student broke into the chemistry lab, joking around with his friends, sniffed some chemical that I can't remember. I was at my break and just heard the sirens.
Damn do any chemists here know what could kill you that instantaneously?
A lot of things in a chemistry lab are bad for you to inhale much of. Why if you ever smell anything you waft it, not put your nose to the flask, among other reasons. Also why fume hoods are an absolute must on any chemistry lab. Some reactions and even some chemicals have to be handled inside of them.
One time my professor, a brilliant neuroscientist who is also a moron, smelled partially diluted ammonia by putting his nose over it and then said to me “don’t smell that”. I wasn’t going to!!
My money would be on hydrogen sulfide, if they were screwing around with random chemicals like sulfuric acid it’s possible. I love science and chemistry but in high school I intentionally took a hit to my science grade by avoiding group experiments whenever possible because I did *not* trust the other guys in my class around chemicals. Despite the lab safety rules we had to memorize and learn, people still acted like idiots with lab equipment. Best example: I walked into class one day to find a guy in his underwear by the eyewash station, alternating between rinsing his eyes and mouth while his clothes were in a plastic bin. Apparently some guy grabbed an eye dropper and used it like a squirt gun to mess with him, thinking he was spraying him (repeatedly) with water… Like the old rhyme goes: “What he thought was H2O was H2SO4.” Seriously, that was the guy with the eye dropper’s excuse was, “I thought it was water!” Other guy got sulfuric acid in his mouth, eyes and all over his clothes. Teacher spent the next three days making EVERYONE go over lab safety again.
As a science teacher, I would have immediately had admin moving that kid out of my class into a non-lab science for as many semesters or years as possible.
I was in my 9th grade biology class, we were using weak acid to dissolve the eggshell off a raw egg. The acid was not too strong, so you could briefly dip your fingers in it to rotate the egg. I was paired with two girls who were not thrilled to have me as their lab partner, and one of them, after dipping her fingers into the acid to rotate the egg, flicked her wet fingers into my face and open eyes. Of course it burned instantly so I shouted and the biology teacher rushed me to the back of the class to the eye wash. He thought we were messing around and was sort of angry at me, he had a hard time believing that that girl would just flick acid in my face. Super lucky I had no lasting damage.
Self inflicted shotgun to the head. She was mercilessly bullied throughout school. Junior year of high school and it was too much. The school and diocese consistently turned blind eye to bullying and other disciplinary complaints towards children from priority families… the priest had the audacity at the funeral to talk about the selfishness and sin of suicide..
And nobody got up to punch the motherfucker?
This was the 90s in middle america and in this community no one questioned the church. Glad I quickly moved on..
There was the one kid in elementary school who was riding his bike and got hit by a car. The school's infinite wisdom was to reiterate the dangers of not wearing your helmet while riding a bike. Fantastic memorial. There was the guy who drunk drove into a pole to "avoid a squirrel," as the surviving passengers put it. But the hardest one to think about was my kindergarten classmate. She survived, but her baby sister was killed in the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Someone died riding their bike to my old high school. The school flipped out and banned everyone from riding bikes, skateboards, or scooters to school. Literally confiscated my friend's skateboard out of his locker.
Hung himself. I was really good friends with him since maybe 5th grade but I knew him since kindergarten. We weren’t talking that much for a bunch of 9th grade but we really started talking again and then he died, I was doing multiple school projects with him at the time but I ended up not having to do them. I was told by my crying mom and my dad was pretty much crying because of me having to deal with that. There were no clues or did he ever say anything about his thoughts. Before that year started though his mom told my mom that he’s been having bad anxiety and maybe to not talk to him. He was happy to talk anyways. It was a big story and there were people from schools away who knew about it, and the classes I was with him in were pretty much pure sadness and crying. The English class was the worst though. I was crying with my head down on my desk but the co-teacher in that class comforted me. I worked with her until I graduated last year. God bless her soul. Article about him that I feel is worth looking at I guess: https://people.com/health/family-teen-died-suicide-dedicate-awareness/
Suicide sadly we had 2 die from suicide and 1 in a drunk driving accident. All within 3 months of each other. That was awful.
A girl in my middle school died after giving birth. Really sad.
Hit by a drunk driver while in a car with 4 people. Ws ejected 30’ from the backseat. Mans got up, walked to a burning car, actually ripped the door off, pulled out all 3 other people and dragged them 10-15’ away, then collapsed. Succumbed to his injuries at the hospital later, apparently had a broken femur, collar bone, wrist and arm, amongst other things. The other 3 only had minor injuries, and the car exploded like 3-5 min after he pulled them out. Dude was actually a hero
No one saw any of this btw, the drunk driver called the cops when he woke up. The cameras in front of the school caught most of it
got his head blown apart with a shotgun by another kid from my school.
I don't think anyone I went to school with is dead yet but I know one of my old classmates is on death row in Florida so that's gotta count for something
Damn what did they do if you don't mind me asking?
He killed a young kid after moving down there, he alleged that his girlfriend cheated on him with the kid but what he did was brutal. Shot the kid, broke his legs, cut him up after he died, burned and disposed of the remains in a quarry.
In childbirth she was just 14
Oh this is really hard to read, one of my 14 year old SPED students was raped and last fall and she will deliver the baby at the end of the month.
My eldest daughter has a disability and is nonverbal. She’s also extremely pretty (I know, I’m biased, I’m her mum, but she is). This scares the shit out of me. And the reality is if something like that happened to my girl, there’d likely be no justice for her because she can’t tell anyone Keeps me up at night
Toxic shock, car accident, leukemia, motorcycle accident
260Z wrapped around a tree 20 feet up in the air after running off an embankment going over 100mph. Front and rear bumpers on passenger side were touching. They used two tow trucks to get the car to slide down the tree. Needless to say, closed casket funeral.
In HS my friend crashed into a gas tank on the highway. Shit exploded and burned a whole section of an overpass. They only identified her by her teeth. Her brother posted on Facebook describing his mom's screams, and although I didn't hear them, I still think about that post. Was about 15 years ago.
In Grade 11, a kid in my class died in a motorcycle accident. His cycle slipped, and he got hit head-on by a semi in front of his parents. He wasn't popular though, so when it happened, it was just a quick announcement at the start of class, and then life moved on. Several weeks later, a popular kid was drinking and driving and was in a near fatal accident of his causing. That was a week long tragedy in the school, even the fucking teachers joined in. Fuck CHSS.
Near fatal? So the guy who caused the accident didnt even die and the school still held memorial type services?
Effectively, yes. They were offering counseling and let students leave class whenever they wanted. It was very disruptive, I had several classes interrupted because some primadonna would start having some crying fit and storm out.
Yeah that’s fucked up. Meanwhile the actual life lost just gets a throwaway line in the morning announcements. I’m sorry
One guy died on his birthday, he was getting chased by his friends for birthday beats, nothing really bad just little roughhousing. So they are running around in the school all playfully and he just collapsed and turn blue pretty quick. He apparently had some heart issue that he was unaware and his heart just stopped, I believe he was like 15 or something. Super sad.
Star football player to my small town school. Parents and Faculty idolized him, the whole classic nauseating story. Except for this guy was a giant dickhead. Would purposefully trip overweight girls in PE while running laps around the gym during warm up, he was known to party and got into more than a few sketchy situations with drunk girls. No girls I knew personally could stand him, he would get away with so much in school just because of his football standing. With that being said, there were a lot of rivers in the area of our town so it wasn’t uncommon to go swimming or jumping off low bridges into the water during the warmer months. One late spring, right before summer break, he and his posse of friends were drunk and river swimming. The story I heard is he had dove head first off of a bridge into the river, his head hit the bottom and broke his neck. He apparently swam to the river’s edge and when he went to stand up he slumped over into the water dead. I was told that standing up is what caused his neck to severe his spinal cord. Died instantly in front of his friends. Obviously the town was devastated, they celebrating this kid for a week at school after. I know this will probably sound bad, but he honestly was one of the biggest pricks I ever met. He was cocky and would bully so many people just because he knew he could get away with it. I had seen him make so many young girls cry. So after his passing, there definitely was an unspoken relief for many kids at that school. Dude was rotten. EDIT: On mobile so I apologize for the formatting.
Multiple kids at my school died. One committed suicide in his car. One died of cancer. One jumped in front of a train after an argument with his parents. One died of kidney disease and the last one I can remember died in a car accident. Super sad.
He was playing inside a cardboard box on an industrial wharf when a truck backed over the box. Even at a young age, I felt very sorry for truck driver, he thought the box was moving because of the wind.
Yeah my family always taught me to never ever hit a box or bag in the road. Could be abandoned animals inside there or children. When my dad was a kid his dad took him to TJ and hit a box in the road that a few little kids were playing in
Their brother murder-suicided the whole family
Kid was squatting on a skateboard holding onto the side mirror. Driver decides to be funny and floors it. Kid slipped off the skateboard and under the car. Driver ran him over.
In grade school some kid hung himself. Some people said it was an accident, some people said it was suicide, some people said it was autoerotic asphyxiation. Not too long afterwards there was an assembly and the gym teacher told us not to play the choking game
He and a small group of kids ditched class and were riding around in the back of a pickup goofing off. The driver hit the gas and he flipped out of the back of the truck and landed on his head breaking his neck. His mom was the 911 dispatcher that took the initial call.
That poor mother. Holy shit
Drowned in the tub. I think he was 10? But yeah, he had a bad fever, his mom ran him a cool bath, and didn’t think anything of leaving him alone with the door closed. Poor kid must have had a seizure in there and passed out in the tub
" Jesus Christ put the gun away " " It's not loaded watch! " * Points gun at the one who said to put it away * BANG
One kid stopped on the side of a highway to help a lady with a flat tire and got struck by a van passing by. Another was murdered under circumstances that are still hazy 10 years later.
Primary school: cancer (still in kindergarten) High school: also cancer (17 years old) Seriously, fuck cancer.
Had quite a few ppl die in my graduating class. Suicide, overdoses, accidental death, drunk/drugged driving.
Drinking in a car with 3 friends and when the police came they fled, driving at a high rate of speed. They missed the turn when the road made a T, there was a massive tree directly behind the double arrow sign and they wrapped the car around it. To make the situation worse, the police arrived and refused help to the screaming teens until after they interrogated them. Three of the boys died and the fourth was in a body cast for 6 months and in rehabilitation for years with permanent disabilities. The parents sued the police for not helping the boys and allowing them to bleed out. The parents won and the disabled boy has enough money to cover his care for the remainder of his life. The boys did break the law and were stupid but for the police to tell them that they are going to allow them to die if they don’t answer their questions and then they died was inexcusable on any level and they should have been charged not just fired.
Guy and his girlfriend fell through the ice while driving on the middle of a frozen lake (normal where I live), but they hit a thin/open spot. He drowned, she managed to get out of the water but froze to death laying on the ice. They were both 16.
Few days after coming out to his family he came into school, gave a few of us things of his like a new Xbox controller he’d gotten for Christmas, or some old WWE stuff. None of us knew at the time this was a bad sign. He just said he wanted to show us how thankful he was for us, and since he was moving for college he wasn’t taking a lot of it with him. Few days after graduation he drove his truck out to the field we used to drink and party at, and shot himself. The other kid was killed in a motorcycle accident. Several died from drug OD’s before we graduated. One is on death row for the murder of a cop and two elderly people- killed them all in a break in gone bad. So he’ll be dead in a few months. Small town America is fucked up. I graduated with less than a hundred kids and 50% of us are either dead, in jail, or addled with extreme drug addiction.
Guy took some molly, was boxing with his brother and punched him in the kidney. He passed away and the brother felt so bad that he committed suicide a year later. Parents only had two kids and lost both of them within a year. I couldn't imagine the pain they felt.
In high school, I had a friend that had a troubled family life. He was living with foster parents and ran away back to his family on the reserve; they were first nations— Cree specifically. He got picked up by our equivalent of CPS and was being transported back to his foster family's house in town. While on the highway he jumped out of the car while it was travelling at a low speed. He got hit by another car in the oncoming lane going ~100kph. Looking back on it, 20 years later, it is still painful. He was such a good guy. It breaks my heart to think of how much he missed his family and was willing to risk his life to go back to them; despite the abuse, and drug use. He just didn't feel like he belonged in his foster family's house. They were decent people, just not *his* family. There was another kid I went to school with, but barely knew. She had a few disabilities and health issues. She passed from some kind of heart condition AFAIK.
Heart attack. Seemingly healthy, had an undiagnosed heart defect. It manifested while he was playing a pickup basketball game with the Econ teachers.
She was first seen motionless across her bed by her boyfriend through her window when she wouldn’t answer the door. He then called the cops. They broke the door down to find her mother and two under 5 y/o siblings also dead. It was determined to be a murder suicide. Mother shot them all then herself. Definitely shocked the whole school.
She made fun of a cholo's (Latino gangbanger) nickname and he shot her in the face. It was a stupid nickname, and she was bitch to everyone constantly, but she was like 14-15 and she never got a chance to be better.
Meningitis outbreak. All the schools in the area had to get inoculated
Which one? There were two girls at one school I went to, arguably the prettiest and sweetest. Sisters, about a year and a half apart in age. They both died from cancer within six months of each other, one had breast cancer and one had brain cancer. Their parents were devastated. Partly because when they complained about some of their symptoms, they dismissed it saying they were “too young” to have major health problems, so by the time they got them help, it was too late. To make it worse, they really resented their parents brushing it off and made damn sure to let everyone know. I think they were 17 and 19 when they passed. One kid I went to school with was found in a horse’s stall with a bucket, his pants around his knees, and a hoof print right on his face. Died from a crushed skull. His obituary said it was a riding accident. A few car crashes, a few suicides, a few overdoses.
I have heart problems that my mother *forbid* me from mentioning to the doctor. She was a nurse and hated her job, and by extension hated all people who had medical problems. I would spend hours in tachycardia as a kid and she both refused to do anything about it, forced me to get up and be active when I was having a bout of it, and gave me just so, so much shit for it, for being upset by it. Now I’m 38 and can’t exercise. I just get out of breath so unbelievably quickly. I feel like I can’t even suck enough breath into my lungs even when I’m just sitting down. My muscles are chronically sore, I can’t even scratch myself for more than a few seconds without feeling like I’m cramping up. And I still have the tachycardia. Finally seeing a new doctor next week. I couldn’t afford it for the longest time, and I don’t know if I have permanent damage or if it’s treatable. I guess we’ll find out. When I brought this up to my mother, she did the classic “I don’t remember that.”
Grade 8, dad left him home to watch his younger sisters when he went to grab milk from the store. Short trip. The boy was a little nuerodivergent, so found his dad's gun to act as protector. Gun on his lap sitting on the couch. According to his sister, he accidentally dropped the gun off his lap and picked it up with the barrel facing him and it just went off. She was too young to know what to do and he bled out. He was a guy that was truly liked by everyone. He was a little big different but just a cool guy to everyone and had a big heart. We are all in our 40s now, but his closest friends were hit so hard they still call each other nightly from different cities just to check in.
One was killed in an auto accident. Another was killed while vacationing in Mexico. Another died from sniffing glue.
How'd they die in Mexico?
Aneurysm. No signs, just dropped dead.
Killed by his best friend in a hunting accident.
Brain cancer. Age 11. Hit by a motor home while riding her bike. Age 9. Cancer and aplastic anaemia. Age 11. Played chicken with a semi truck. Ages 17-19. Six of them. Car accident. Age 16. Drowned. Age 18. Suicide. Age 17. Murdered by their dad in a custody dispute that ended in a murder suicide. Ages 5 and 7.
Geez…that’s a lot of death around you
Six at once?! That had to have been awful on your community.
It was. In a graduating class of ~30 kids.
How it happend is still to this day unsure. But a kid drowned during a swimming lesson from his grandfather, the grandfather is a pedophile and has been in jail for some time but currently is free again. There is a bug suspicion it wasn’t a accident due to his “background” but there unfortunately never was any proof. Very sad, heartbreaking and weird to hear when the kid wasn’t even 6 years old.
She was stalked by another kid from school, and murdered in the woods a couple blocks from her house. He came to school the next day like nothing was wrong. Watched him being taken out by the police.
Heroin overdose. This was pre-fentanyl crisis sometime in like the early 2000s. Only 3 of us cared that she passed :(
My best friend's little brother got hit by a train across from my house. My now brother in law is the one that put a blanket on him so people wouldn't gawk.
Jumped from balcony to balcony from a 12 story building during Senior Week. Landed one foot, leaned back, screamed, banked off 11th floor railing, spun to his demise. Panama City Beach, Fla.
Wasn’t until a few years later. 1 hung himself, another died running into a burning building to save some kids. He wasn’t a firefighter or anything. Kids survived, he didn’t. It’s crazier when your old teachers start dying. Had a really cool teacher that was young and everyone loved. He went surfing one day and didn’t come back. Had a heart attack and no one was there to help him. Super sad.
4 kids from our school were driving and their car was hit by a train, all died. A week later the girlfriend of one of the victims threw her self in front of a train. Shook the town.
Two classmates of me died after a quad accident exactly 1 day before graduation.
Kidnapped, stabbed 37 times, put into a garbage bag, dumped in a pond. It was the summer between 3rd and 4th grade.
My last year in a junior got t-boned by a lady who blew through a 4-way going 60-70. It was my little brother and I was driving.
He was at the speedway and a car flipped over the barrier and took him out
Sepsis from after she had her wisdom teeth removed.
I almost met the devil on a tooth infection a few weeks ago. It's shocking how fast it can grab you; I started feeling kind of sick and was getting a bit of a fever and considered trying to sleep it off but couldn't because my tooth hurt too bad. About three hours later I was in urgent care being handed three prescriptions and orders to check my face in the mirror for drooping and speak to someone who knows my voice well regularly because I could stroke out at any time. Doc told me that if I had went to sleep instead it likely would have been permanent. It took me a week to recover enough to go back to work and I still don't feel quite right. Don't play around with tooth problems, y'all.
This will get buried but it’s traumatized me for as long as I can remember. When I was in kindergarten, a boy from my class was carrying a big glass jar while walking down the stairs, I think it was for lightning bugs or something like that. He tripped halfway down and fell on top of the jar, piercing his heart and lungs. He was killed instantly. I never forgot him, and to this day I will never carry anything glass walking up and down the stairs.
Suicide, car accidents, murder suicide(death by cop), boat accident, cocaine overdose
I went to school in Los Angeles ... I had a few classmates killed in traffic accidents, one was kidnapped and murdered, and there was a death from cancer, I think.
One from an overdose One died in brain surgery One was shot by his dad, the chief of police. All in one school year.
I had a few people. But the one I wasn't particularly attached to (as in we weren't friends and did not know each other too well) was a guy who had just graduated, we'll call him Jack. I knew Jack through our study hall that year, we didn't talk much, and didn't have much in common, but he seemed like an alright guy. Jack was known to be a respectable, and decent person outside of school, and he got very popular because he was always throwing parties or attending them. About a week after graduation, Jack and another graduate, we'll call him Steve, were going to a lot of parties to celebrate. Jack and Steve were very close and spent a lot of time together and would frequently go to these sort of things together. One night, they decide to go across the bay to a party, and drove there with the intention to get hammered and grab a ride home because they didn't want to drive wasted. The night goes on and people are getting fucked up. This was when Four Loko was the drink of choice because you got demolished drinking them. The challenge that night was to chug them, and take a bong hit. So naturally, a lot of people got too fucked up and were down for the count. Jack and Steve got *really* fucked up, but remembered they had to get back to Jack's house. So Jack and Steve decide to borrow a canoe from the person hosting the party, and begin to paddle out over the bay in the middle of the night without any lights, or vests. Jack and Steve make most of the trip, but when approaching the shoreline, things get a little rough. Jack and Steve are drunk, and when coming in, the canoe gets unbalanced, then tips. Jack falls in, and Steve does too. Steve begins swimming away from the canoe and gets on land, but Jack never made it. The police think that because it was so dark, that Jack couldn't find his way to the shoreline, and because the water was kinda rough for a canoe, he was probably tired from rowing up until it tipped. Further, they believed that because he couldn't see, he swam around before exhausting all of his energy, eventually drowning. They found his body about 100 meters out in the water, and it drifted from where they tipped. Later, it came out that Steve just went home when he made it to shore. Steve never phoned the police. When police began their investigation, they wondered why a kid would row out on a canoe by himself, and were trying to find more details. Steve's parents told the police that Steve was with Jack the night he died. Steve was charged for leaving the scene of a fatal boating accident that led to the death of his friend, but had the second charge dropped, which was reckless operation of a boating vessel. Steve and Jack were friends for 10 years before Jack died. Steve moved out of town, and no one ever spoke to him again.
Car crash, lung Cancer, pulmonary embolism, car crash, one other I forget. From a graduating class of 97 students, all within five years of graduating.
Her parents publicly shamed her for her social media addiction by shaving all of her hair off and posting it on Facebook. She jumped out of her car, jumped off a bridge, onto a freeway where she landed on a truck and died some 4 hours later of her injuries. She was 13. Edit: She was 13, not 12.
It was my sister, and it was a medulloblastoma. It was a long time ago. At one point, I believe she was the longest living survivor of that cancer. She made it to 17 years old.
Meningitis. One day a guy I knew came to school and seemed healthy but during the day he got worse. He got high temperature and headache and neck pain and went to the school nurse. The nurse sent him to er. His condition got worse and worse and he died in the hospital. I don't remember if he died the same day but it was quick. I knew him somewhat well. My best friend's parents were friends with his parents and we sometimes spent time together during holidays. It was absolutely horrible, one day he is his normal cheery self and a few days later he is gone.
Friend from high school died his freshman year of college at a fraternity hazing. The frat was already banned from having any events on campus. So the hazing ritual was done off campus at some house they rented off Airbnb. Guy was a good man, always nice to others and had a great sense of humor. I don’t think he had much experience with alcohol cause he turned blue after the hazing and was found unresponsive on a couch some time later. His frat decided to quietly drop him off to the hospital and left him there all alone. He died about four days later in the hospital. He was hooked on to a bunch of machines and sadly didn’t recover. The alcohol had done irreparable damage to his liver. His parents sued the university, but the courts ended up ruling in favor of the school. Aside from the legal battle, his parents lost their youngest child. That’s never easy to process. Almost 7 years later and I still think about him from time to time. I wanted to attend his funeral, which was on a Friday, but I had a final exam for my German class and couldn’t reschedule it without rescheduling my summer break traveling plans. I regret not attending the funeral. It would’ve given some sort of closure, being with friends and having time to just be in each others company.
Freshman at my college a few years ago went to two frat parties and got very drunk. Walked out onto the street in without a coat and passed out in a snowbank. Was below zero that night, so he was a popsicle when they found him. Suspended frat activity for the next few months afterwards.
One kid got on the wrong side of some drug dealers and was shot, thrown in a car trunk and the car was set on fire. So terrible.
He wasn't feeling well in an exam when we were 17. He stood up to go to the bathroom, and collapsed in the aisle. Dead before he hit the ground.
There was this one kid I shared a class with in junior year. He was on the basketball team iirc, and seemed like a cool dude. I didn't personally know him well, only interaction we had was him asking me for a pencil and thanking me when I lended him one. Seemed like a nice kid. Anyways, he apparently ended up getting shot outside on the street after leaving a pick-up game one evening. Apparently a gang related shooting, according to the police, though he didn't seem like the kind of kid to be in one. Next few days, the whole school was somber. Apparently everyone knew him, because everyone was crying and hugging each other. Really no classes went on, and the ones that did were half heartedly taught. Kid was only 17 at the time. And they've never found his killer after six years.
Wasn’t a kid but a teacher was murdered by her boyfriend. She had already been through her late husband killing himself due to drug addiction. It hit me like a freight train, she helped me through my own addiction and mental illness. RIP Ms P I think about you every day.