passing the news along

[kaydeefalls]

For those of you who might not have heard, Kia (punkmeanscuddle) passed away last night. One of her friends posted about it in a locked post a few hours ago.

I can't say I was all that close to her, but she was one of my first friends on LJ three years ago, and now I wish I'd gotten the chance to know her better. She will be sorely missed.

I just. There are no words.

Comments

[beizy.livejournal.com]

*crushed* I can't even deal with this. I just...

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

I know. I've been crying on and off for hours. *clings*

[beizy.livejournal.com]

Me too. Fuck. Just, FUCK.

*sobs*

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

Has this been confirmed, sweetie? I can't read the locked entry that rynalwyn posted, but beizy made and then deleted an entry about it awhile ago. magickalmolly didn't even know about this, and she was quite close with Kia.

I've already lost it once over this, but it seems odd that no one else knows, yet... I just want to make sure the facts are straight before I can accept it and mourn her.

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

I kept sort of...waiting to make this post, and rechecking the original LJ entry over and over again, clinging to the desperate hope that it all might not be true, somehow. I guess I'm still clinging to that hope. I e-mailed the lj user formerly known as rynalwyn as soon as I saw her post, but she hasn't gotten back to me yet.

I hope to god it turns out not to be true, and that I'll be deleting this post in embarrassment, but...why would she have written something like that, if it weren't true?

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

I don't know, unless it was because the information she got was wrong. We don't know how she knows or who told her, do we?

[kaydeefalls.livejournal.com]

That's true, but...I don't know. It's all so crazy. I very much hope she somehow was misinformed, but until we learn more, I've got to believe that she just knows more than I do. She was closer to Kia than I was.

[crazybutsound]

Rynalwyn and I, as well as a couple of other people whose email addresses had been in Kia's old email account (the only one her mother could access) received a couple of emails from her mother telling us about Kia being rushed to the hospital about a week ago and about her death last night. Ryn and I wouldn't stand the thought that she would have died without anybody knowing and remembering her.

[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm the one who posted the entry that beizy and kaydeefalls are referencing. I received an email from kia's old email address, because my old address was in that address book (along with a handful of others), from Kia's mother about a week ago that she had been rushed to the hospital. Yesterday she contacted the same group, telling us that Kia had passed away. I spoke to blackkoda via email, who was Kia's friend before she ever was online, and she had been contacted by her parents (whether via email or phone or whatever, i don't know) and was planning to go to the funeral though she didn't yet have details about when and where when we talked.

I can understand that people are reluctant to believe it, believe me. I suppose it could be some elaborate prank but I can't imagine why, nor why if it was, they'd contact that particular group and no one else, especially considering that most of us hadn't really been in contact with Kia at all for months before then.

I'm a little weirded out about the fact that so few people knew, myself. The only reason I posted about it was that I knew a lot of Kia's friends were on my friends list and I couldn't stand the thought that she could be gone and so many people just wouldn't know, and not remember her.

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for explaining -- I hope you don't feel like I'm questioning your honesty or motives, because that was never the case. I was just, as you say, reluctant to believe. But what Kia's mother did makes sense, and I can imagine my husband doing something similar in an effort to get word out to my friends if something happened to me. Thank you for helping to get the word out.

[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

No, as I said I can totally understand being reluctant to just accept something like that, especially when it's something that even her current close friends weren't sure of. It's strange how things play out sometimes.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

oh my god.