Never Assume

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I heard the call come over the scanner that a woman who was out walking her dog had found an unresponsive male in a driveway. My gut told me that it was someone I knew. About an hour had passed when I got a message from my brother to let me know it was our cousin. Of course Facebook was all a buzz with posts about the man they found. They questioned if he was homeless, if it was drug related, and wanted to know the identity of this poor man and how he died. The banter went on for hours until I snapped like a dry twig. I wrote that you should assume that a person died of a drug overdose, was homeless, or post words that will cause further grief to anyone. I went on further to say that the only people that truly needed to know what caused a person’s death was that person’s family. I also added that the man who passed was family. He served his country honorably. Never assume the cause. People do pass of natural causes. Reach out to the family and try to comfort them in their grief.