Some deaths are a welcomed friend; when the cycle of suffering is broken, when the slow deterioration has ended. Other deaths are an offense to the natural order of things; when a parent buries a child, when unfulfilled dreams are dashed.
It is not right that death comes when there is so much living left to be done. It is not right for 20 year old students fill a sanctuary for a funeral instead of a college campus for a class. It is not right to watch a mother's heart break with a painful, permanent good bye at the graveside.
The death of a 20 year old is not a welcomed friend. It is a offensive. It is wrong, painfully wrong.
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