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My best friend in high school was a guy named Sky Rashby. I haven't seen or spoken to him since 1996, but every now and then I would think, I should look that guy up, see what he's doing now. Well, about half an hour ago I did, by the most obvious method: type the name into Google. It's a pretty unusual name, after all.

Without even clicking on any of the links I discover that he was most recently doing wild and wonderful things in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech.

But in August, he killed himself.

You wouldn't think I would be as upset as I am. No contact in eleven years, right?

Fuck.

Comments

[moxie21.livejournal.com]

gosh, i'm sorry. that's hard to take for anyone.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would be really upset. So I would actually think you'd be as upset as you are. I'm sorry.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

*hug*

That's awful.

[queenpam.livejournal.com]

*more hugs*

[graydon.livejournal.com]

I would think you would be upset. I would be terribly so. Sorry to hear it.

From Sky's sister

[(Anonymous)]

Hi there,

I'm Sky's sister (one of them) and I'm so sorry you had to find out this way. If you want to talk about anything, feel free to contact me through the blog: rememberingsky@gmail.com

Take care.

Sky

[(Anonymous)]

I am a distant friend of Sky---I met him through his relatives on the east coast. He was an exceptionally great guy & had everything going for him while he was working on his doctorate. There is no expanation that makes sense to me as to why he chose to do this, however, I think the fact that he lost his mother to cancer while in college and shortly after that his father while he was planning to meet him in Europe for a trip seem to be events that he never recovered from --he was very sensitive and was experiencing depression the months leading up to his passing.
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