August 23, 2005

Anger, not sadness, was my emotion today

I sat in the funeral today, not so much sad, but angry.

My anger was directed to those who were with him on the day he died. And maybe I am just assuming that his judgement was impaired by what it didn't have to be impaired by, because one does have a choice.

So assuming that his judgement was impaired, I wonder why didn't his friends caution him before he got to that stage?

If you see a friend doing something that is not in her/his best interest, would you stop him or her?

Posted by yamfoot at August 23, 2005 05:07 PM
Comments

Your moral sense of duty and loyalty to the friendship should tell you to stop him/her from doing something potentially harmful to him/herself or others.
I do hope your friend didn't lose his life for because of carless judgement on his friends part.

Posted by: Campfyah at August 23, 2005 07:24 PM

In response to your question....YES!

Another reason why I often go out in groups with bredrins rather than alone. We suppose to look out for each other. That is an understood unspoken code of ethics.

I wonder if his friends were just as impaired so they did not realize themselves?

It is also a good thing to know just how much you can 'hold'.

My boss went to the funeral.

Posted by: Dr. D. at August 23, 2005 08:06 PM

I would let them know it's a bad idea and discourage, but if you are grown I'm under the persuassion do what u want to do.

Posted by: my truth at August 23, 2005 08:11 PM

Bwoy Mich, maybe they were just as impaired as he was... Hey, I am just going thru the Sunday Gleaner and I realise that I know who you are talking about. He used to go out with a girl I know. I'd never have dreamed that he was forty though. I thought he was younger than me.
Anyway, I am sad to see him cut down in his prime, especially as it seems he was making something of himself....
Bummer... :-(

Posted by: Mad Bull at August 23, 2005 10:45 PM

I would try to stop them if i could but many times people dont listen

Posted by: jdid at August 24, 2005 11:23 AM

Would try and hope they listen

Posted by: kami at August 24, 2005 12:52 PM

I hear he dived in... maybe he hit his head on a rock? Maybe his judgement was not impaired then, or at least, maybe not badly... who knows anyway, him still dead. :-(

Posted by: Mad Bull at August 24, 2005 09:39 PM

Of course I would stop my friend, after all that's what true friens are for to watch out for each other.

Posted by: Stunner at August 25, 2005 12:00 AM

They could be angry with me but at least they would be alive I fell out with my friend's teenage daughter recently because she was doing 120 on a 50km highway and talking on the cell and the next day in the newspaper a girl her same age losed her life because of speeding.
So yes.

Posted by: Amelia at August 25, 2005 09:06 AM

Yea I would if I percieved there to be a risk or if I felt what he was doing to be very dangerous. But at the sametime, I find that often times we realize that someone close to us did something stupid only in hindsight.

Posted by: Marc at August 25, 2005 09:24 AM