Groom killed hours after wedding while new wife watched

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The life insurance policy was effective. I hope the driver wasn't distracted by a woman standing on the side of the road wearing a wedding dress.


I'm a little baffled. I don't see anything in the news article about a life insurance policy!
 

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Those words were not in your original post though. The original post comes across as a cynical snide comment, seeming to imply that the insurance was in place and her being by the side of the road in her wedding dress was just the distraction needed for a payday. That's how it came across. When I replied initially it was not off the cuff, I actually read through the thread a few times and read your initial post along with them to see if it could be interpreted differently, that didn't happen.
So you relieve yourself from your imagination and put the blame on me when my reply was to the last words in the previous post. Your thinking was what determined what you took the post to mean, don't bother putting the blame on me for you errors in comprehension.

So if that's not what the meaning was, which I completely accept if you say it is not, then I would suggest you need to take more care in explaining yourself better.
Perhaps you need to stop jumping to conclusions.

My second reply was not a "dig" but just telling you how the first post came across, and not just to me.
Nobody posted anything before you did so that is a false statement, what comes after your post has no bearing on what you had already assumed, perhaps you should ask for clarity before making conclusions that are in error.

Not everything is part of some Machiavellian plot against you, sometimes it's just the words themselves that you choose to use You seem to do alright explaining yourself after the fact, I just really wish sometimes you take more time to do so initially.
Who said it was. I didn't make any errors, you and Karrie did so perhaps it is you two that need to do the 'improvements'. Karrie hasn't liked me for years, that is not an imagination type of thing.

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The poster that made the silver lining comment would most likely have been the one that took my comment in the correct context while you two just took it as you first saw it. If you both saw it the same way perhaps it is that you two think alike. One of you has a friend that never recovered and you take it that you would go through the same hell rather that grieve as you should but then you also have to end the grief unless you like grief that much. It isn't like the one being grieved for not be joined by the other anyway. In taking your advice for when talking to you there is something called a period of grief where it is a deep emotional thing but emotions are mean to be spontaneous so if the same level of grief is there constantly then that vital part of being alive is broken and it needs fixing. The deep emotional grief can be felt anytime you choose to go back and think about anything that happened in that that first 30 days (or whatever is appropriate for each person) but to be part of a dynamic society you have to be reacting to events that are currently unfolding around you. How was that put by the woman who made the white Santa comment. 'Just because it makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it should be changed' (or something to that effect)
lol Now I feel like I have to make a disclaimer for ever post I make just so you can't take it out of the intended context.

Since we seem to be having some sort of unintended heart to heart your comment about the one that never recovered, is that something you promote as being the way it would go for anybody who experiences something that traumatic? (based on your words about the Bride's state of mind without that information being in the article and I'm quite sure an woman married to the same man for 50 years would experience the same level of shock and horror)

If people like ES can be determined to be intentional trolls then doing what you two are doing (understanding somebodies 'hidden intentions' without any questions actually being asked, how witchy of you or is that how an actual busy-body operates? Did you 'try to help the woman you referenced? What form did that take? and the list goes on if I want to understand the comment you made. By what I've seen in this thread you might do do damage than good. (something I can relate to in real life but that's another thread)
 
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I wasn't commenting on the OP, I was commenting on the last words in this post. Just flows like this post does, it is a reply to your post rather than the OP. Losing your husband and your house is worse.

It just doesn't get any sadder than that. I don't even see a "silver lining"!
 

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You deaf? Be funny if the ignore button was the cause. How insecure does a person have to be to hace some words on a BBS throw your day off?
 

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The life insurance policy was effective. I hope the driver wasn't distracted by a woman standing on the side of the road wearing a wedding dress.
The bride was sitting in the truck as the article said.
 

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The issue seems to be the insurance policy part so far or that it was an elaborate part of some get rich plot. So it was a man and a woman on the road, without the wedding dress, that still could have been a distraction factor for the first contact, the other two could have been simply unavoidable as would be the case on any high speed road.
 

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You deaf? Be funny if the ignore button was the cause. How insecure does a person have to be to hace some words on a BBS throw your day off?


YOU made a statement about the life insurance policy and I'm just trying to figure out how you knew about a life insurance policy! Is that a hard concept to comprehend?
 

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If there is a silver lining to the story that would be the one and only one I can think of. If you guys want to take it further than that go for it, I've got all day to find out what sort of creeps are on here cause that is the way I see most of the clicky oones on here that is more like a pack than a gathering of like minded people. (even to the point of the green and red buttons. Anonymous support or condemnation rather than having to say it on the board (and then explain it), you might as well be Anonymous Cowards and take a number.

YOU made a statement about the life insurance policy and I'm just trying to figure out how you knew about a life insurance policy! Is that a hard concept to comprehend?
Do you think I take caps as shouting and thusly feel intimidated by it, you would be wrong in every respect if you did. I actually see it as being quite childish really.
Be a bigger shame if there wasn't one. Do you think the drivers of those vehicles won't be having to have their respective insurance companies paying out big time to both families? The insurance companies would be arguing about which hit actually killed them as you don't get charged when it is a body you cannot avoid hitting compared to your vehicle being the hit that ended the persons life.

I'm sure that a thread being made here is being a real comfort to the ones affected by the real event.
 

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Be a bigger shame if there wasn't one. Do you think the drivers of those vehicles won't be having to have their respective insurance companies paying out big time to both families? The insurance companies would be arguing about which hit actually killed them as you don't get charged when it is a body you cannot avoid hitting compared to your vehicle being the hit that ended the persons life.

I'm sure that a thread being made here is being a real comfort to the ones affected by the real event.


I'm trying to figure out how you know there was a life insurance policy covering the victim. We don't need to have the issue confused by bringing in other sh*t!
 

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It is the husband who takes out a policy to take care of their family just in case events like this happen.


Yep..............................except when the wife is more concerned about a livelihood should something happen to hubby!
 

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Yep..............................except when the wife is more concerned about a livelihood should something happen to hubby!

You guys do know that women take out life insurance on themselves to protect their families too, right? I try not to pull the 'you're being sexist' card too often on the forum, but, women die too. Women dying leaves men in financial binds too. Women worry about their family's futures without them too.


And just to clarify, I am actually chuckling as I was typing that.
 

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I'm trying to figure out how you know there was a life insurance policy covering the victim. We don't need to have the issue confused by bringing in other sh*t!
What part of it being a bad day for the ones involved being less than an extinction level event for mankind and when you can't find a silver lining and I give you one then I turn out to be the one the is off his rocker. Suddenly your emotional level for the widow is more than you would feel for a neighbor two blocks away from where you actually live.To top it off you (all of you really) think you are never in error let alone having to publically own up to it if you are. (that I have seen and at the moment no other posts of yours stands out as being at all confusing.
 

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You guys do know that women take out life insurance on themselves to protect their families too, right? I try not to pull the 'you're being sexist' card too often on the forum, but, women die too. Women dying leaves men in financial binds too. Women worry about their family's futures without them too.


And just to clarify, I am actually chuckling as I was typing that.


Right on, Karrie.
 

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karrie;1842943[B said:
]You guys do know that women take out life insurance on themselves to protect their families too, right[/B]? I try not to pull the 'you're being sexist' card too often on the forum, but, women die too. Women dying leaves men in financial binds too. Women worry about their family's futures without them too.


And just to clarify, I am actually chuckling as I was typing that.
Very, at that time (family) the funds are usually in a joint account anyway (as in the way my parents ran their house) Somewhat different from a month in Vegas.

On my defective side I'd probably be a bit mad if my bride stopped to help some strange guy who was off the road on our wedding day.