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Just found out my childhood best friend has died.

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Goldenskeletons · 23/05/2021 19:13

I don't really have anywhere else to talk about it.

We were best friends in Primary school, into the first 3 years of high-school.

We spent all our time together, had so many crazy kid adventures. Spent our summers doing shows and dancing to the spice girls.

It's a double tragedy as her sister, who I was also close to as a kid, passed away a few years ago in awful circumstances.

I only know about my friends death because my sister saw a single FB post from a month ago about it.

I don't know how to contact her family, I can't find out any information about what happened or if the funeral has passed already.

If I search her name articles about her sister death come up, nothing about her

I don't know why I'm posting really. I'm just incredibly sad and can't stop thinking of her mum who has lost half of her daughters now.

Sleep well K x

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Rupertpenrysmistress · 23/05/2021 19:19

Oh I am so sorry. I can understand these feelings. Incredibly difficult for you.

RhubarbCustardy · 23/05/2021 19:22

That's sad. Could you not send a message on the Facebook page?

paralysedbyinertia · 23/05/2021 19:24

I'm so sorry, OP.Flowers

DroopyDaff · 23/05/2021 19:33

It really knocks you doesn’t itFlowers.

I found out my best friend from secondary school up til I was 22 died a few years ago. We’d lost contact when I moved to London for work and she wasn’t happy when I started bringing my boyfriend (now DH) with me when I came home for visits and refused to meet up (think she was a bit jealous) so we just stopped talking.

Old school friends came up in a conversation so it prompted me to look her up on Facebook but I couldn’t find her so googled her and found a newspaper story about her dying 4/5 years before very suddenly from illness leaving a toddler and a young baby. She gone through years of infertility apparently before having her DC and was only 40. It was so sad and I was utterly dazed by it for days afterwards.

Goldenskeletons · 23/05/2021 21:07

I can't find any of her family on Facebook. I think her mum remarried. I can only find her and her sisters page.
I don't know what I would even say to them.

I just keep thinking that I should have got in contact with her again.

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