what do u do when...., ...a friend dies... Options

[hawyngurlie8o8]

cause its basically ture for meeh...he died at 13 yrs old...we weren't good friends but knew eachother and now that he died the school has posters all over dedicated to him...

THE ARTICLE:
Victim called a likable 'rascal'

By Will Hoover
Advertiser Leeward O'ahu Writer

He had dreams of becoming a lifeguard and a firefighter, and once, as a little boy, he tried to save a playmate trapped inside a burning shed.


Keoni Brick

But the aspirations of Keoni Brick, 13, a Kapolei Middle School seventh-grader and popular "rascal," came to an end Sunday when he was struck and killed by a truck as he tried to dash across Farrington Highway near Kahe Point Beach Park.

He was the third person — and second child — to be killed in the past three years at this especially treacherous strip on one of the most dangerous highways in the state.

Yesterday, Keoni was remembered fondly.

"Everybody says the same thing about him," said Sean Tajima, Kapolei Middle School vice principal and Keoni's former counselor: "'He was rascal. He was funny. He made me laugh.'

"Keoni was popular," Tajima said. "Girls liked him. Boys liked him. Everybody liked him, actually."


That included his teachers and administrators, said principal Annette Nishikawa — despite the fact that Keoni got in trouble at school, was a frequent visitor to the principal's office and would have been repeating the seventh grade this year.

"He just didn't like to study," Nishikawa said.

"He was just overly playful," added Tajima.

Keoni's mother, Judy Brick, described her son as an outdoors type who was passionate about fishing.

"He got in trouble, but he was really a good boy," Brick, 33, said.

Brick, a divorced mother of two, said Keoni and two young friends were crabbing on the beach Sunday between Kahe Point Park and Ko Olina Resort when they caught a large 'alakuma, or seven eleven crab.

She said Keoni wanted to take the crab's huge claw to show his favorite uncle, Randy Asuncion, who lives near the Bricks' residence in Honokai Hale.

With claw in hand, Keoni ran toward his bicycle, parked on the mauka side of the four-lane highway. He got only as far as the middle lane before he was struck by a town-bound pickup shortly before 8 p.m., Brick said.

He was taken to The Queen's Medical Center, where he died about six hours later.

Police are investigating the accident.

Dangerous highway
• More than 80 people have been killed in traffic accidents on Farrington Highway between Honokai Hale and Ka'ena Point since 1990.

• In the same area where Keoni was hit, an 85-year-old man was struck and killed last year, and a 7-year-old Nanakuli boy was killed as he tried to cross the highway in 2001.

Although Keoni almost never spoke about it, he was affected by an incident that happened when he was only 7, his mother said. The family was living in Nanakuli in May 1998 when an 8-year-old neighbor girl accidentally set on fire a shed that she had converted into a playhouse.

Keoni, hearing the girl's screams, ran for help. As neighbors rushed to extinguish the playhouse with a water hose, Keoni tried to throw buckets of water on the burning structure.

"She was already screaming and he was, like, trying to throw a bucket at a time on the fire," Brick said. "He was pretty young, but he was affected because he couldn't get her out."

The girl died in the fire.

Brick said the family is arranging services for Keoni at the end of this month.

Keoni also leaves behind his father, Matt Brick, 34, of Las Vegas, and younger brother Chance.

Judy Brick said Chance was taking the death of his big brother pretty hard.

"I'm OK," Chance said quietly.

Keoni's friends also were affected by his death.

Tajima said several of Keoni's classmates came to school yesterday even though they don't begin classes until Sept. 7. They wanted to express memories about their friend, he said.

Brick said she has received a lot of phone calls since the accident. One parent called to say he was really sad when he heard about Keoni's death, she said. He told her how he once chaperoned a birthday party Keoni attended and how the boy made a point of thanking him after he gave Keoni a ride home.

A lot of Keoni's friends have called, too, she said.

Nearly every one made the same comment: "Keoni always made me laugh."


im reaLLY sorry its long....

[whomps]

Wow.. such tragedy It's okay, you'll manage to pull through.

[dani41790]

o heard about that cuz i live in hawaii. i thought it was realli sad sorry about how u lost a friend man farrington is scary to cross

[DrEaMgUy2K1]

well dont be afraid to show emotion first of all, dont hold back tears...i guess all u can do is moarn on the loss until u feel that u have moarn enough and accept the fact that ur friend is gone......i wasnt trying to be cruel in any way if this came off like that....

my friend travis died a few months or a year ago... went to fight in iraq and yea , i felt bad cuz all his life he wanted to be all marine like and shoot guns and stuff, but then i realized he died doing something he always wanted to do,and i accepted the fact that hes gone.

i actually wrote a really really long entry but then i read the post again and i got off topic ish.... yea im confused so im just gonna summit my post

[eversosweet]

*sniff* so sad... sorry dat u lost a friend , that highway is scary

[Selinda]

that's tragic... he's a nice guy...i love people making me laugh. well, what you need to do is to pray for him, that's what i usually do when my relatives pass away...i do hope that helps you feel better.

[nlgrl]

aww im sorry

[MeanBastard]

Follow the guy.

[kraziegrl]

wow.. so many people are dieing.. in my friend's profile, it says how two people died in his school.. i thought it was sad, so i didnt really ask about it. THEY SHOULD FIX THAT HIGHWAY

[pinkrocsmysocs]

i feel soo bad what i would do is if u r in school take a few days off then if u arent then i would go to ah room think of all the fun things we shared and vist with there family a lot so that they kno ur there

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[XHiddenbeautyX]

im so sry! i heard of 2 ppl dying this summer. i new one of them. its tough but memories stay in ur heart

[Mireh]

Aw...Poor kid. I'm terribly sorry that this had to happen to you

God Bless.

[inthemudhole]

Aw, I'm sorry..
One of my friends died last year.. she had heart problems.. she was only in 9th grade.. it was awful.. I cried so hard at the funeral.

It's so awful to lose a friend.

I'm really sorry for your loss.

[x3chrissyx3]

I know how you feel.
3 of my best friends, the only best friends I've EVER had, the only people who knew everything about me died this year. It's so hard, and I'm still not OVER it, but you manage to pull through.

I'm truly sorry about your friend, but only the good die young...and if you believe in Heaven, they gained another angel.

If you need anything, I'm always here, even though comforting words may not do much.

Feel better hun.

[XxBeExOHxX]

replace him with another acquaintance. since u sed "we weren't good friends but knew eachother "

[elmogurly]

aww, hope you can pull through. just think of the positives...

when was this? i never heard about this. wow.

[lisaaaaaaa]

aww....i'm so sorry i hope you'll feel better....i've never experienced a friend dying before

[Looow]

all i can say is CRY...cry as much as u can...until you can't...it really helps...whatever ur going through...it helps to cry...

[tImOnE]

well..the same happend to me..a frend of mine died at the age of 13 and it was this year....it was a hit and run i tried to c him at the hopital but the visting hours were over and i couldnt c him for the last time that nite they pulled the plug on him yea..and the next day at skool they hung posters up all over..

[xox Qt LuVZ xox]

Aww, I'm so sorry. I think I heard about that... but I dunno, I know it's not going to be something you can get over so easily. But he's probably looking down on you, and is smiling about making people laugh, etc. And maybe talk to some of your school-friends about it... I mean after all, the same thing happened to them right?

[huney8o8]

heyy! yooh go 2 kapolei middle? i live in kapolei too! yea i heard about that.....and i knoe exactly how yooh feel! i dunno if yooh heard about that boy Jett Dinio that passed away last year in May, but that waz a good fren of mine! and don't wrry....everything will be ok! it may take sum tyme to move on....but yooh will eventually! i can remember all the posterz around sku about jett...and all the assemblyz and stuff that were held....but it will be ok, trust meeh! yooh jus gotta give it sum tyme! well i dunno if this helped...but i dunno if yooh wanna talk yooh can IM meeh at huney8o8! alritey...byebye!!

[ciara nicole]

woah. thats sad.

[lidocaligurl]

[SIZE=1] all i can say is CRY...cry as much as u can...until you can't...it really helps...whatever ur going through...it helps to cry...


well yea its hella hard wen sumone dies lyk mai fren's mom died and she used to be lyk mai grl scout troop leader(shut up) and lyk her family was frens wit mine and it was hard wen she left and realli sad but u jus cry lyk wut she said ^

[I_LiKe_PiRaTeZ]

eh.. i heard about that..
i guess it was kinda sad..
my friend died.. no one cares.. your friend dies.. everyones there for ya.

id just be alone for a while.. cry, write, do whatever it takes to tell yourself that they're gone.

<3 Dave.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

theres nothing you really can do. talk to your friends about it and just dont hold it in. even if you guys werent so chill` with eachother, its still an impact to you, and believe me. there are still going to be times long after hes gone that you`ll think about him. believe me. i know.

4 friends 1 boyfriend are gone from me, forever. i lost 3 in one month.

when my 2 friends passed away 10 days after eachother there were counselers at our school and everything, just go talk to someone.