Wednesday, April 16, 2014

In-Laws Funeral Turns Into Nightmare Before Halloween

A sister-in-law had the day we all dread (when we have parents we love) happen sooner than expected when her mother died of a heart attack at a fairly young age. Her mother is this very out-going dynamo, community oriented, talented woman. My brother and sister-in-law where passing through Boise where their mom lives on their way to conference when it happened. Fortuitous?

Anyway, they had the funeral and an aging gentleman, upon leaving the funeral in his car--probably some gigantobile, became confused and ran over a bunch of people with serious consequences--two in critical condition, 4-5 with non-life-threatening but life-altering injuries and several more luckily escaped with minor injuries.

Encourage elderly parents who show signs of declining driving skills, dementia or syncopal episodes to give up the keys, or, many states allow anonymous reporting and then they have them go in for check ups. If you're one of them, bow out gracefully. Don't turn all the funerals you're going to attend into a Freudian road rage incident aimed at the younger funeral attendees.

Heart go out to all the mourners and the injured.

Loren M. Lambert © October 7, 2013

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