Given how well the last week has
gone, I really wanted today to be a good day. I wish I could have started this
article by saying that the armored Humvees and Personnel Carriers came rolling
through Langley and we are loading up to go to a safe zone. Instead, we lost
another member.
Judy Savage passed away in her sleep
last night. None of us are medical doctors. We just know that everyone was all
getting up and around for the morning meal and people noticed she hadn’t made
it down off the coolers yet. Jenny and “Hobbit” Judy went to go investigate and
found her. We have to assume that it was something quick like a massive heart
attack or an aneurysm because no one heard anything. No one had a clue.
I guess looking back, Judy was not
doing the best health wise but, like I said, none of us are doctors. She was
going downhill with her mood and such. I don’t think that you can die from
depression. But looking back I kind of get the impression that Judy was just
giving up on life.
Let me put this out there and let me be
clear. When we lost Janet, Tommy, Becca and Ashlynn, it was a tragedy of epic
proportions and I think that I voiced my opinion quite clearly about all that.
I have no idea how all of this is going to play out.
This one time, when I was in High School,
we all went out to the lake for a day of fun and the big thing that we liked to
do was get drug behind the boat in a giant inner tube. The thing about that is
that the splashed when you get knocked off of it, the crashes are spectacular.
The one girl that we graduated with, Holly, bounced off a wake an slipped into
the water, feet first, with zero splash. She was like a freaking mermaid
slipping into the water. And all of us felt cheated. There was an audible groan
from the others in the boat because we wanted to see her splatter across the
water like we all had done.
If we are going to be real real here –
“Be real real, son” – all of us are going to die in this place. With the way
Judy went out (compared to Janet and Tommy), Judy slipped quietly into the
afterlife. If you are going to go out, the way that Judy did, it is not a bad
thing. We should all be lucky to go out so quietly and peacefully. Judy will be
missed by our group but she was lucky to go out the way she did. She just went
to sleep and didn’t wake back up. Not a bad way to check out…
LOST MEMBER: Judy Savage – 55, Female,
Strang, OK
