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In reply to the discussion: I'm heartbroken. How can people be so cruel? [View all]left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)This happened to someone I knew when I was living near Pittsburgh, Pa (where I grew up)
I knew him as a coworker. We worked for a small drugstore chain (which later joined the Rite Aid drugstore chain). We worked together a year or two around 1964 - 66.
We were friendly at work, but not social friends -- didn't hang out.
After a year or so he was transferred to a new store and I moved out-of-state to a different job; we did not keep in touch.
A few years ago I was looking up people from my past and saw a few mentions of him.
One said he was in a hospice facility and the family requested no visitors.
The next mentioned his death, but no obit with any info of any kind other than the funeral would be private for immediate family only. No info on place of burial. Really no info but that he had died.
Having known 17 people over the decades (friends, coworkers, acquaintances) who have died of HIV/AIDS I wondered if that was the case in this former coworker's death.