Please refrain from commenting. Thank you.
Last Thursday I got to know about my best friend's mother's horrible death in a car crash on Friday, January 22nd 2005, when she was on her way to the elementary school she taught at.
I went home immediately and attended the funeral on Friday, the happiness of seeing my best friend again, who had been in New Zealand since October, being heavily darkened by the circumstances of the situation.

Her mother loved working with the kids at school and invested a lot of time, energy and heart into that work. She leaves behind her husband and her 3 children, her youngest daughter being only 17.

I can't begin to imagine what her family's going through at this time and what it'll be like for them to continue without their mother and wife. But I know that I've not felt this kind of sadness ever before and I only met her a few times without ever really getting to know her much.

I hope she rests in peace, and that her family finds the strength to live with this loss, continue their lives and always keep her in mind as the cheerful and energetic woman she was.