<p>i’m so sorry for your loss.</p>
<p>Truly saddened by this news. I am so sorry. My prayers are with you and your family.</p>
<p>We are screaming with you. No one should ever have to go through this. Add my condolences and prayers to all of the others going out to you and your girls.</p>
<p>Please accept our sympathy. RIP.</p>
<p>In the spirit of LTS, it would be nice to offer support for one of our own longtime posters, crabbylady, who announced today on CC that her dear husband has been killed by an alleged drunk driver. I can only imagine the range of emotions she is dealing with, hour by hour, but the fact that she took time to post the news on CC is evidence that she might welcome support from all of us. I know that LTS was comforted often by the kind, thoughtful and insightful words of hope and strength from our community, and I hope crabbylady might find similar solace for the days, weeks and months ahead. </p>
<p>CL, I am praying for you today. And I offer this, in honor of your H, who I believe was a public health doctor and whose life, though cut tragically short, was as meaningful as it gets. </p>
<p>May the pain of every living being
Be completely cleared away.
May I be the doctor and the medicine
And may I be the nurse
For all sick beings in the world
Until everyone is healed…
May the frightened cease to be afraid
And those bound be freed…
–from the Prayer for World Peace by Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden</p>
<p>We are with you through this. Please let us know how we can help you.</p>
<p>Thank you for posting this, momof2inca. None of us can imagine the tragedy of such a senseless loss, and of a life cut so short. The cc community is here for our dear crabbylady. May her DH rest in peace.</p>
<p>Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.</p>
<p>Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public
doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.</p>
<p>He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.</p>
<p>The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.</p>
<p>Only Auden’s words can express the grief. I am so sorry.</p>
<p>Crabbylady, my prayers and thoughts are with you and your family; may you find strength together to endure this tragedy.</p>
<p>You and your family are in my prayers. So sorry…</p>
<p>Crabbylady, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your daughters.</p>
<p>I am so saddened to hear of the loss of your wonderful husband. You and your daughters will remain in my thoughts and prayers. Hold tight to your memories and to each other.</p>
<p>I am so sorry for the tragic loss of your dear husband. You and your daughters are in my thoughts and prayers.</p>
<p>I have no words of wisdom, but I do offer any support that I might be able to provide. I believe in the power of prayer, so I will pray for crabbylady and her family with all my heart. </p>
<p>I would like to think that LTS is showing crabbylady’s H around …</p>
<p>I’m so very sorry to hear about your loss. What a senseless tragedy. I’ll be thinking of you and your daughters with many prayers and much sympathy.</p>
<p>My thoughts and prayers for you and your daughters.</p>
<p>Crabbylady:</p>
<p>Before I sent this, I took time to read the news article. OMG, one of the bright lights in Alaska has just been crushed out with the death of your husband. It’s my sincerest hope that your nearby community gathers in and helps your family through this grief, as I am certain that they will. It will take you some time to sort out your feelings and extinguish the anger you have to feel right now. When that time comes, and it will because your family and community will help guide you, think of a special project you can start so the community will continue to feel his presence, through you. Through this, you will connect back with him.</p>
<p>Oh God.</p>
<p>Crabbylady, I am so sorry for your family’s loss, and for your community’s loss. Scream all you want. Know that we’re here for you.</p>
<p>I don’t know enough words of comfort to offer; but I have found music to provide great solace. For a gentle and caring man like crabbylady’s husband, I would suggest Faure’s Requiem with its intimation of Heaven as a sunlit and peaceful realm.</p>
<p>I thank you as well, momof2incas. </p>
<p>Words fail me, but I want to join in the feeling of support.</p>
<p>Putting CL in my prayers.</p>