Suddenly Someone's Light is Extinguished
Published on December 19, 2015
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Hello,
It is not easy to tell this for me, but after some thinking (+ advice) I think I have to share this...
Yesterday at a 6PM local time a friend, the father of my godchild died due to a train accident.
A stupid, dumb accident!
He left the pub across the train station too late (probably playing some kind of slot machine) and because they left on family weekend he needed to catch the train at 6PM.He crossed the railways behind or in front of a train that did not move and on the last railway there was his train, but he did not notice that there was third train passing by (not at high speed) in the middle... And the moment he jumped on that railway to cross them (what actually is prohibited) the third train has taken him, only at 20 miles/hours, something like that... But it is as deadly as at 60 or 80 miles/hour...
He leaves 3 children, 2 boys who are around 4 and 6, they have the same mother.
The other child is his 8 year old daughter Arwen, I am her godfather and her mother is my best friend... But Tom, that's his name, was also a friend of mine, we played our weekly portion of squash for a while (most of the times...).
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It is really unreal, but actually I don't want to put the attention on myself...
The reason I really wanted to post this blog is to ask people's advice / experiences with losing a father or mother at such an important age: 8 - 9 years old, she realizes everything now and she is still a child.
I am a member of a community with members all over the world from all kinds of ages, religions, color, whatever... I think it is something very powerful to access all kinds of environments and different ways of approaching something, which might be very interesting in a situation like this.
When there is any info/experiences that is useful for Arwen, that can help her, can you please share it here on the forum or send me a PM?
Any useful info regarding this kind of situations or a an experience that can help, that would be better than any website success you can imagine...
This is not something where she needs support only the first 2 - 3 weeks.
I realize that the next days, weeks, months, year(s) will be a struggle for that girl and that she needs extra support...
Some things are so unfair!
Thanks for reading this...
Grtz,
Bert
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