[iloveponies]

It is never easy when people you know pass away, especially those younger than you. However, I'd argue it is more difficult when the situation happens at a much younger age for the realisation that the deceased were given less time alive than we will receive no matter how abrupt our lives end.

Dr. Crandall was fortunate to have a daughter and time to achieve so many things, more than I can say about some of my peers who left the stage before their twenties. For some of us, the bittersweet position has already arrived.