Dead And Gone
As I set foot on the hospital yesterday morning and greeted the staff nurses, a loud sound from outside jolted all of us. We all rushed outside and obviously, it was an emergency case, a boy, a toddler, has drowned, and was dead on arrival.
I was not sure of the efficiency the health care team was able deliver the news to the family of the boy. Maybe, no matter how many years of practice and experience you have with this kind of thing, it is never easy.
It made me realize how simple life really is – there is an end, and it can happen any time, all of a sudden, and that’s it. Like my prepaid load expires just when I need it most, life and death can be a check that bounces off the bank and you are suddenly sank.
But you know what? I think the saddest thing in life is to die… while you live.
oo nga naman.
andyan ka sa sulok at inaaksaya ang oras mo.. pero nililibing ka na ng panahon.
Ax
June 26, 2009 at 5:02 pm
poetic much? LOL i like how you said it though.
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:35 pm
A child’s death is one that pains me the most. People are not supposed to die way ahead of their time.
Anyway, I am glad to know that you’re well. I apologize for my rather long absence from these pages. Take care of yourself always, my friend.
panaderos
June 26, 2009 at 9:45 am
but who knows when is their time right? i’m also swamped in work. ugh. you take care also bakerman!
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:34 pm
there is no pain worse than losing a child.
death is hardest on the living.
Seraphine
June 25, 2009 at 12:50 pm
i guess so. they are so innocent!
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:33 pm
you have to make sulit life while it is still there…
sheng
June 25, 2009 at 9:05 am
wow ‘make sulit’ i like that.
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:32 pm
No one is immune to death but what’s life without death?
This topic came up while I was talking to one of my friend.
If you can’t die, or in other words you’re immortal, are you even alive?
There’s a need to have this duality otherwise one will loose it’s sense.
It’s like wanting to have light without shadows. Heat without cold. It’s probably impossible. If it’s possible to have one without the other, will one still be itself?
I hardly believe so because the duality gives it’s characteristics.
Death is surely something sad, sometimes tragic but it’s necessary.
shadowmoon87
June 25, 2009 at 8:41 am
oh wow this is a very good comment, like a mini post. very strong points.
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:33 pm
That is so sad. Death is inevitable, we can never really tell. It scares me how am I gonna die, I hope not in the sea where the sharks are going to feast on my decaying body, haha!
Well, let’s just say, kailangan may sign-up na sa memorial plan, sooner or later, dun rin naman tayo papunta. And I will leave a note to my lovedones with my url, para they can read it when I’m gone. For now, enjoy life! Let’s go shopping already!
K.noizki
June 25, 2009 at 4:43 am
ayoko din mamatay sa dagat. plane siguro plane okay pa. LOL
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:32 pm
kaya dapat live life to the fullest kasi di natin alam kung hanggang kelan tyo dito sa earth.
btw mishu pm!
dyanie
June 25, 2009 at 2:18 am
uu nga eh may expiration talaga. hindi ako makapagcomment sayo eh google lang yung pwede?
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:31 pm
ganyan din ang nasa isip ko kapag may namamatay na malapit sa akin. kay rupok.
a.r.d.y.e.y.
June 25, 2009 at 1:14 am
hay… i think i know what you mean.
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:31 pm
but in real life it’s better to die than living 100x worst…>>>para lang to sa mga pessimist na katulad ko
^^ dapat tayong maging masaya para sa kanya… hiiigh…
blahblah
June 24, 2009 at 7:24 pm
emo? LOL of course, dapat laging smile!
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
live life to the fullest.
Source
June 24, 2009 at 6:58 pm
as they say.
prinsesamusang
June 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
“To die while you live” – ahh, that’s so awakening. Carpe diem talaga dapat.
witsandnuts
June 24, 2009 at 2:13 pm
sometimes no matter how many times we hear it, it doesn’t make sense until we experience it.
prinsesamusang
June 24, 2009 at 5:40 pm
grabe! sad nga! just goes to show that no one is immune from death. and you’ll never know when you’ll be leaving! haaay..sad naman ako for the family of the little boy.
kg
June 24, 2009 at 10:14 am
more than sadness i was so consumed in observing grief in front of me.
prinsesamusang
June 24, 2009 at 5:41 pm
tama ka dyan
yun tipong dead in the inside
yun tipong gigising lang sa umaga at parang zombie gumagala sa kalye at walang pinatutunguhan
teka, may pasok ba?
may bagyo, ah
raft3r
June 24, 2009 at 8:32 am
ayoko maging zombie, panget ang itsura. meron signal no. 3 pa kami mawawalan ng pasok eh hay… LOL
prinsesamusang
June 24, 2009 at 5:43 pm