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SteveDallas · 12-21-2003, 05:13 PM

I received a phone call from my mom early this morning informing me that my cousin died of a heroin overdose yesterday afternoon. Truly shocking. He was about a month shy of turning 23. We weren't close (he was only about 4 when I left home to go to school, so I just saw him on holidays for most of his life) but it's still shocking on many levels. I believe the drug business was news to his family, but indications were that it wasn't new for him.

Anyway, thanks to a stash of frequent flyer miles, I am off tomorrow morning to attend the funeral on Tuesday. Mrs. Dallas is feeling somewhat guilty that she's not going, but we ultimately decided that a) it wasn't practical to drag the kids (who are, I think, too young to attend the funeral anyway) along and b) even if we could find somebody to park them with for two nights, it would be very rough on the kids considering that we've had no chance to prepare them for it. (I also, tending toward a somewhat morbid way of thinking, wasn't keen to have both parents jet off on a plane and leave the kids behind, just in case something happened to the plane.)

12-21-2003, 05:13 PM	#1
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Shocking, bad news I received a phone call from my mom early this morning informing me that my cousin died of a heroin overdose yesterday afternoon. Truly shocking. He was about a month shy of turning 23. We weren't close (he was only about 4 when I left home to go to school, so I just saw him on holidays for most of his life) but it's still shocking on many levels. I believe the drug business was news to his family, but indications were that it wasn't new for him. Anyway, thanks to a stash of frequent flyer miles, I am off tomorrow morning to attend the funeral on Tuesday. Mrs. Dallas is feeling somewhat guilty that she's not going, but we ultimately decided that a) it wasn't practical to drag the kids (who are, I think, too young to attend the funeral anyway) along and b) even if we could find somebody to park them with for two nights, it would be very rough on the kids considering that we've had no chance to prepare them for it. (I also, tending toward a somewhat morbid way of thinking, wasn't keen to have both parents jet off on a plane and leave the kids behind, just in case something happened to the plane.)