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A friend of mine from my choir was very badly injured in a motorcycle accident a few weeks ago. His legs, and right arm were very badly broken, and he lost much of the muscle tisue on his legs from road rash. Since then he has been kept under sedation while he has undergone numerous surgeries. Over the past week, attempts have been made to wake him up, but he simply isn't waking up. He underwent CT scans today to see if he has brain damage. We will be awaiting the results.

His name is Craig and he is a wonderful person loved and cared about by many, and to lose him would be a devastating blow to his family, friends, church, and our choir. Please, if you are religious, have him in your prayers. And if you are not religious like me, just think about how fragile life can be at times, and hope that he pulls through. For the rest of the year our choir will be dedicating a song called 'My Life is not this Steeply Sloping Hour'. The lyrics are as follows:

My life is not this steeply sloping hour
In which you see me hurrying.
Much stands behind me,
I stand before it like a tree
I am only one of my many mouths
And at that, the one that will be still the soonest.
I am the rest between two notes
Which are somehow always in discord,
Because death's note wants to climb over.
But in the dark interval reconciled
They stay there trembling, trembling.
And the song goes on beautiful.

I'm sorry. Will do.

Truly I am sorry to hear about this tragedy and my thoughts and prayers will go out too Craig!

Yours Sincearly
Dan

Sometimes life deals blows, the reasons for which we are not immediately aware, but I truly believe that everything that occurs is an important thread that helps weave out our lives. I am sure that good will come, even out of something as awful as this. And may I say, that is a very, very beautiful song.

Thanks guys, and it really is a beautiful song.

I actually got some good news today - apparently he has started sweating when he tries to move. I obviously don't know alot about these kinds of situations, but apparently that is a very good sign. So hopefully he'll be waking up soon.

In the mean time my choir is leaving on tour to Winnipeg tomorrow, so if anyone wants to see us, we're singing at the Podium festival on Sunday. We're called kokopelli.

Well, I started this topic a long time ago. Since then he pretty much made a full recovery and everything was going great until yesterday. He was in another accident, this time in a car, and he didn't make it. Thus far all I know is that it happenned on a highway and a fallen stop sign is to blame for the collision. His sister along with two passengers from the other car are currently in hospital.

Wow, that's awful! I'm sorry. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.

Woah. That's so unfair.

It's scary that he was in two accidents in one year and he's the one who died in this second one, and yet the others survived. Now I don't believe that our lives our predetermined, but things like this almost make me think there is something out there deciding our fate.

Also, how weird is it that ..::Trapeze::.. only has one post and it's in this thread...

Some people are born with tragedy in their blood...

This is so fucking weird Joel. I read about it in the paper today. It happened not far from here, it's such a tragedy.

I says it's weird because just today i was talking to girl from work who knew him, and she mentioned how sad it was because he just recovered from a motorcycle accident in Edmonton. Then as i'm reading your first post i coudln't belive it could be the same guy but then i saw the recent one about the stop sign and knew it was the same guy.

Sorry for your loss, the whole city is mourning it as well. Whoever knocked down that stop sign needs to pay.

You get manslaughter for that.

Thats awful. I'm truly and deeply sorry to hear that.

Man, I'm so sorry- My thoughts go out to you and his friends and family.

His family are being so noble about it. they're not vengeful or angry, just sad.

they also mentioned his Choir and love for singing in the paper

the way I see this situation is that because of the accident, everyone realized how much he meant to us, and we really showed it to him rather than taking his presence for granted as it is so easy to do with friends. When the accident happenned, I couldn't remember the last thing I had said to him, but after the accident I truly valued every moment I had with him, and so did everyone else. The last thing I said to him before he passed away was that it was really great to see him, that at least takes away the guilt that I had felt for not appreciating him. As for his death at such a young age, it's hard to justify. Sometimes I think that things like this aren't meant for us to understand. One thing that is for certain though, is that over the past year craig endured the trials of a lifetime. I think right now I have to take the positive things from this and remember how precious life is, and to appreciate those around me more, and most of all to celebrate the person that craig was. Just a couple months ago, craig's parents were planning his funeral because he was in a coma and wasn't recovering, and now it's really happenning. I'm not a religious person, and I don't believe in god, but it almost seems as if craig had some great calling in another existence, but when god or whatever it may have been saw how much we needed him on earth, he was given back to us for a short while just so that we could tell him how much we loved him before he was called back for whatever it is that he's needed for.

Dabekk wrote:I'm not a religious person, and I don't believe in god.

Didn't you know him from the church choir? Maybe I misunderstood...

he mentioned church and choir, but not together, so I assumed it was a school choir or some other choir.

I know him from a secular youth choir, but he was from a fairly religious family as are many of the members of the choir.