Dead Loss
Dear Dolly Doctorb,
I had a friend who just passed away recently from a terminal disease. If it had have been caught in time it could have been cured, however no-one noticed the signs until it was too late. Everyone is feeling bad, but I feel even worse. I had a fight with her just before she died. Now every time I think of her I can't remember the fun times we had without feeling guilty. What can I do to get over this, and how can I face our friends, or her family?
Distressed.
Dear Distressed,
It must be a really hard time for you right now, with the realisation that your friend was so pathetic. You must be thinking of all those times when you thought she was really cool, only to have those memories tainted by the fact that she was lame enough to let some 'terminal' disease kill her. Do you know what doctors mean when they say a disease is terminal? That the person with the disease is too evolutionarily unfit to shrug it off. In fact, it's good that she's dead. No-one that pitiful deserves to live. The only way to console yourself right now is to urinate on her grave for being so weak, and then trying to get as much of her stuff as possible.
I had a friend who just passed away recently from a terminal disease. If it had have been caught in time it could have been cured, however no-one noticed the signs until it was too late. Everyone is feeling bad, but I feel even worse. I had a fight with her just before she died. Now every time I think of her I can't remember the fun times we had without feeling guilty. What can I do to get over this, and how can I face our friends, or her family?
Distressed.
Dear Distressed,
It must be a really hard time for you right now, with the realisation that your friend was so pathetic. You must be thinking of all those times when you thought she was really cool, only to have those memories tainted by the fact that she was lame enough to let some 'terminal' disease kill her. Do you know what doctors mean when they say a disease is terminal? That the person with the disease is too evolutionarily unfit to shrug it off. In fact, it's good that she's dead. No-one that pitiful deserves to live. The only way to console yourself right now is to urinate on her grave for being so weak, and then trying to get as much of her stuff as possible.