Opiate deaths

[vorlon13]

Damn.

Recalled a name (fondly) of someone I worked with around 1980.  Did the old google thing, and up pops an obit.

Fuck, the guy has a weird name, how many people can have the same one??

Then look closer;

town is right

age is right

kids, yep

no mention of divorced wife



and a picture.




Well Jesus Fucking Christ, it's him.  Younger than me too.  And he just passed a couple months ago.  And that picture?  Looks gaunt, and not being snarky, he looks older than he should. Way older than I do.

Much older.

And where do I see that look all the fucking time?

Goddamn 12 Steppers.


So, I don't know if it was liquor or fentanyl or meth or heroin, it doesn't really matter.  I'm just seeing way way way too much of that.  "Joe" last fall, and now what I'll call a handful this year and shit, what the hell people??


It was NEVER this bad during the AIDS crisis.  As it was I could barely handle that rate, and I'm seeing double that now for addiction deaths.  And not all are surprises of course, K I'm looking at you, but this one?  Damn.  He was a good enough worker, easy on the eyes and didn't mind me coming on to him.  And LOL, not an outright immediate rejection either, had to think it over.  Told his eventual fiancé about it too.  She hated me for it, but I knew he shaded what he told her, he had to or she wouldn't have married him.

He was a sweety, he was, damn I feel bad about him passing. 


So what's the score at that place now?

CS dead

MY dead

VT dead

PM dead

ML dead

JA dead

JK dead

RB dead

and I'm fucking terrified to google Tony now.  Shit, he was so smart, saved the fucking company (from itself!).  And yeah, real easy on the eyes.  Damn Ton, you better fucking still be around . . .


FWIW, and weirdly I might add, dear old fuddy duddy Dave is alive.  Shit, he had cancer and beat it!!  30+ year cancer survivor, and good for you.  I had you pegged as first to go, and you're in the running for last.


Never know, do we ??