I Couldn't Do It!

So today, something interesting happened to me. I was having such a stressful day and really feeling like I was not going to make it through. I'm pretty sure I almost didn't! Anyway, I had to call one of the Newspaper companies we were doing an ad with. So I call and a woman answered the phone and I asked for a man (the contact I had written down). After I asked for him, the woman said, "He's dead". I was speechless. I really thought that she was kidding. After a few seconds of akward silence, I said, "are you serious?" She said yes and that she was his wife and then asked if there was anything she could help me with. I told her I was sorry and asked if there was anything we could do for her. She started talking to me a little bit and she had the attituted of 'it is what it is'. She sounded so angry. Anyway, she transferred me to the man who has taken his place and I spoke with him and took care of business. I was a little shocked. Still am. Who just says "He's dead"? Then I started thinking, she has probably had to repeat that phrase over and over again. I don't think that I could do it. It would be hard enough to go to work where my spouse and I worked together but then to answer the phone and have to tell people that he is gone. She is probably numb now. I wish I could do something for her but what is there really to do. Not much. I will say a prayer. He hasn't even been gone a month.

I found out later that the man was only 26 years old and died from complications from a motorcycle accident.