R.I.P. Chloe.

Found out this morning that I actually know this girl.

She was one of my mom's drama students, and I had met her once before and then seen her in a whole pile of the student productions. I loved her acting. So did mom. She really was a brill little actress with lots of promise.

I didn't know her very well at all. Only vaguely. But it's really weird how you don't have to know someone exceptionally well in order for their death to hit home. Death can happen in so many ways and affect so few of us, but as soon as one can put a name to a face, and can relate to the person, then the death hits home.
I may have only known her vaguely, but it was still enough to bring tears and shock, and the thought's of 'why?' and 'I can't believe she's gone'. I just can't believe it.

Having lost a classmate two years ago, this is not something that I would wish on anyone, and can fully relate to how her classmates are feeling.

The thing that worries me as well is that paramedics were called to the scene, and with me wanting to study paramedics, it makes me wonder how I would cope if I turned up at a scene and the victim was someone I knew...

But. Yeah. Really puts life into perspective when things like this happen. Yesterday my blip was of a wedding, and today one of suicide.

To all her family, friends, classmates, and people who knew her well or vaguely, I am truly and deeply sorry for your loss.