A Co-worker passing away

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So I found out last night that a co-worker has passed away.

It was really sudden- took sick leave on Monday and passed away last night from acute leukemia. She had been looking a tad pale, but still comes as a real shock, worked together for about a year but weren't really friends.

Any of you lost a co-worker?
 
Yes, also from Leukemia. A couple of years ago. She was our music teacher but I must add, she was already close to 70. Not that it makes it less traumatic though.

But 2 colleagues have also had cancer a couple of years ago, but luckily they seem to be clean at the moment. We are hoping for the best for it to last as long as possible.
 
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Yea, twice. One was in a motorcycle accident and the more disturbing one was colleague diagnosed with cancer. I say it is disturbing because the person was quite healthy and even after diagnosis was still looking fine and we thought she is just going to work less and eventually retire. Two weeks later, gone. Scary how fast these things can happen.
 
Once, last year.

He was a real pain in the a$s to work with though so I'm not sure how many people actually cared.
 
A gentlemen who I worked with for about a year retired and about three months later passed away.
 
Had a guy start on our team, was around for about six months, got hit by a car and died on the scene. He pulled over into the emergency lane on the highway when get got a flat tire, the visibility was also bad due to a massive veld fire near it. Another car was speeding down in the emergency lane and swerved to miss his car but hit him on the other side changing the tire.
 
Lupus said:
Had a guy start on our team, was around for about six months, got hit by a car and died on the scene. He pulled over into the emergency lane on the highway when get got a flat tire, the visibility was also bad due to a massive veld fire near it. Another car was speeding down in the emergency lane and swerved to miss his car but hit him on the other side changing the tire.
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Thats hectic.

I think it's these sudden ones that seem so strange? This is the first person that I've really had contact with on a regular basis, so this feels really.. Can't describe it.
 
A bit more than a year ago we lost a team member on a sports day. The guy wasn't even 40, active and in good health. Heart attack.

I remember being called that night -- it took about 3 repetitions of the news followed by "You're not serious, right?" from my side before it sank in.
 
Lupus said:
Had a guy start on our team, was around for about six months, got hit by a car and died on the scene. He pulled over into the emergency lane on the highway when get got a flat tire, the visibility was also bad due to a massive veld fire near it. Another car was speeding down in the emergency lane and swerved to miss his car but hit him on the other side changing the tire.
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I hoe the idiotic ****ing driver was charged!
 
Lupus said:
Had a guy start on our team, was around for about six months, got hit by a car and died on the scene. He pulled over into the emergency lane on the highway when get got a flat tire, the visibility was also bad due to a massive veld fire near it. Another car was speeding down in the emergency lane and swerved to miss his car but hit him on the other side changing the tire.
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Daym!
 
Not a co-worker as such however, one of our co-workers was in a serious accident and all his children passed away (3 of them). He survived. He came back to work 3 months later. Was such a terrible time, he is much loved by the rest of us!
 
Carol35 said:
Not a co-worker as such however, one of our co-workers was in a serious accident and all his children passed away (3 of them). He survived. He came back to work 3 months later. Was such a terrible time, he is much loved by the rest of us!
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:( That is tragic.
 
A few years ago, 2 colleagues were killed in car accident - 200 meters from work! Taxi jumped a light.

Most of the company saw scene on the way to work.

I was on leave that day and fortunately missed the accident, but was there for the funerals and grieving that comes with it.

One of my worst days ever!
 
Lost a few over the years even my best buddy.
It's very sad because of the time spent together it's almost same as a family member passing away.
 
Lupus said:
Had a guy start on our team, was around for about six months, got hit by a car and died on the scene. He pulled over into the emergency lane on the highway when get got a flat tire, the visibility was also bad due to a massive veld fire near it. Another car was speeding down in the emergency lane and swerved to miss his car but hit him on the other side changing the tire.
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I've had that nearly happen to me recently....

Idiots on the freeway just don't bloody pay attention. I had put the warning triangle 50m down the road, had pulled over as far as I possibly could so I'd have space to change the tire, had the hazards on the vehicle on... And some idiot in his porsche still managed to destroy the warning triangle and miss me by absolute millimetres.
 
We spent a lot of time in the office, our co-workers becomes family. It is a really sad loss.
 
Happened to me, sort-of

I was mistreated at a certain company. I had not spoken to the shareholder in ages.
I was in Lesotho on business in the first week of October, I had just sat down to dinner when the phone call came through to tell me that the d00s who made my life a living hell at that company, the one who spied on me and my family, had blown his head off with a gun.

All I can say is karma is...
 
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I hoe the idiotic ****ing driver was charged!
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Was a hit and run :-( only witness was his girlfriend in the car at the time.

@Toxic, yup people do drive like idiots on the highways :-(.
 
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A few years back, one of my workers hung himself, he was from one tribe and the other employee from another, they had a fist fight in my receiving area. I broke it up, suspended the two of them until we had a hearing and threatened them with job loss.... next day S never came to work, his room was empty, my partner drove around until we found some folk pointing out an old building.... and there he was swinging in the breeze..... he was a tall chap, but to see how his neck had stretched on the rope always stuck with me...

He was'nt a bad guy, just super sensitive ....
 
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A bit more than a year ago we lost a team member on a sports day. The guy wasn't even 40, active and in good health. Heart attack.

I remember being called that night -- it took about 3 repetitions of the news followed by "You're not serious, right?" from my side before it sank in.
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One of my colleges died of a heart attack at age 27, a year younger than me at the time.

I had limited contact with the dude... mostly when there was a function and he was dishing out shots. I went to the funeral and was sad how few people from work came, it was the people who didn't work with him that came.
All his team didn't show up... nor his manager. Sometimes a small company can be a very cold lonely place.

Was awkward when his mom asked me what it was like to work with him. Had to make something up... the only memories I have of him was at the one Christmas party he pranged his car in to another college on the way home, then at another thing he bought two rounds of tequila before I snuck out, he then dissapeared and everyone was worried he didn't get home. Months later when he died I was shocked that he didn't die in a car accident.

Having someone younger than you die of a heart attack is a bit of an eye opener !
 
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