I was talking to a friend of mine today, and he related to me how somebody he knew died over the weekend. Two guys were playing around with a gun one evening. Call my friend's friend Mike. Call the other guy Eric. Not their real names. They were both drunk. The gun discharged while in Eric's hand. Mike was shot in the head. He died. Eric is now in jail for manslaughter of his buddy. Well, I suppose he hasn't been convicted yet. But he's being held.

The thing is, nobody was very broken about about the death of Mike. My friend, call him.........hell, call him Boris for all I care. Boris told me that while he had known the guy, he had mixed feelings about his death. Seems that Mike wasn't very well liked. He was, in fact, the "biggest prick ever". Boris told me of a phone conversation. Went like this: "ring ring", "hello?" "Hi! If you could wish for somebody being dead, who would it be?", "Mike!", "Well guess what? You got your wish!". Seems that Mike was very much disliked indeed. Not a few people were sorry to see him go.

I don't know about you, but I find this pretty bad. Mike must have been a pretty horrible guy. Anybody who knows me knows that there's people who I can't stand. Lots of them too. And when I say I can't stand them, I really hate their guts. But even me, I don't think that I'd ever really want anybody to die. That's pretty harsh punishment for being an asshole. I'd settle for permanent exile or something like that. Death...I don't know. I can't really imagine wishing somebody dead. Maybe if somebody did something really bad, like raped or killed somebody I am close to. I don't know. I don't really believe in capital punishment, but with the emotion....who knows how I'd feel. But I don't think that I right now wish anybody dead.

Anyways, Boris telling me about Mike's death just got me to thinking about these death things. It's too bad that Mike died, even though he was by all accounts, the biggest jerk in the world. And boy, think how Eric must feel. Take that as a lesson not to play with loaded guns will ripped eh?

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