Heavy hearted...

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Lost a close friend and colleague last Saturday...Went to the memorial service yesterday.
So young and so untimely...
He was a good guy.

Quote from the obituary:

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Christopher Shiflett passed away tragically at the age of 28 on December 28th, 2013; only 18 hours before his wife, Holly, gave birth to their only child.


More details here, if anyone's interested in reading (NOT posting this as a fund collection request or anything, but it has a good overview of the tragedy below the main photo; it's the best link I could find):

http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/support-the-shifletts/122434
 
wow so sorry to hear that . way too young to leave us. thoughts and prayers go out to you and his family.
 
So sad and tragic. Was it a heart attack or freak aneurysm? Terrible... So young, and to think how so many mistreat their bodies. He was jogging.
 
Thank you for all the kind comments and sympathy so far.

We still don't know exact details - heart attack is the reported cause of death, but no autopsy/finer details yet.
He had an extensive record as a sportsman and an athlete - soccer, volleyball, marathons, basketball, triathlons, you name it - he had excelled in it, both school/college levels. That's what was so shocking to us, that he was so fit and young.
 
That's terrible.. where are these sort of deaths coming from all the sudden? Had one death similar here in KC. Think he knew about his heart issue though. If something won't kill you something else will.
 
Sorry to hear this. Hard to say with out an autopsy. Humans start developing arterial plaque at say 17-18 years old, even in non diabetics. Many people walk around with 40 -50% narrowings in coronary arteries and it is not a problem as they are not flow limiting until they are say 65-70% narrow. The problem comes if a plague rupture occurs in a 20% narrowing, it activates the platelets and the coronary artery occludes due to thrombus formation at the rupture site. Usually there is time to respond and get to a hospital/cathlab and fix this, But if its a the left main artery or it causes an dysrhythmia that no one is there to correct ( defibrillator/cpr), the outcome is not good. But there are other things as well, there are sudden death arrythmias that occur that are not caused by atherosclerotic heart disease as well as aneurysms in the aorta and brain.
 
Sorry to hear. I lost 3 high school friends last year, but I wasn't particularly close to them. Losing a close friend in such unfortunate circumstances must be tough.
 
Sorry to hear of your loss.

It's especially tragic when it happens to someone so young, and just hours before the birth of a child.
 
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