Perhaps I should put a fashionable 'trigger warning' on this because it's about someone dying, in what I find distressing circumstances. It's not gory, or painful, it's just very very sad.
So, I knew the woman who died only virtually in the main, since we were both on Ravelry and we were both in a few of the same groups, notably the one for Archers Listeners although there were others too. We did meet once, at the first Yarndale Festival in Skipton, but as she lived in Cambridge and worked in London, once we had moved to Orkney the chances of us ever meeting again in person were remote. But she was still someone I knew and occasionally swapped messages with on Ravelry.
I heard on Thursday that she had died. It was unexpected since she seemed in good health. She was divorced and childless and lived far away from her nearest family, her father and brother, so it was her employer who raised the alarm on Wednesday after she didn't log in to work on Tuesday. They got in touch with a local friend, who got no answer at her home, called the police to gain entry and there she was.
She was such a lovely kind and helpful person with many many friends so it has hit me hard to realise that in the end she died alone, and that it was her employer who realised something might be wrong. . It's a sad and unfitting end for the person she was.
It would have been her birthday this coming week. And she would have been 54 years old.
Seize the day. And hold your loved ones close.
She was somebody very special, and missed so much by so many. Thank you for posting this. - JH.
ReplyDeleteCan I also just say, as an outsider who's been reading back through some of those posts on the Rav forums, what a wonderful space you all created there, with so much joy and fun and support and connection and good humour. It really is a huge credit to everyone (and their mods!) to have created and sustained such a wonderful environment. Long may you all continue! - JH
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