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The only way that could be more horrible is if a handicapped kitten died trying to save him as he died trying to save her. It is seriously that horrible.
No, not at all. The Oregon coast is pretty wild in winter, and that particular area has a lot of riptides and rough waves.
You see it more often than you'd like to hear about it, and this year has been particularly terrible.
My mother's ashes were scattered on that Proposal Rock, and every time I've been back to visit, the water is churning about and has high waves.
I feel really bad for them though, they had so much they were looking forward to, and it sounds like he did everything he could to get her back. Really sad.
Oh god. We have a friend whose wife died of a fall from a cliff during their honeymoon on one of the islands. He's now married, with a child, but it took over 15 years for him to get into another relationship. Horribly tragic and haunting.
Aaargh. From the article's title I was expecting a heartwarming ending where she was rescued and accepted the proposal in a lifeboat shed or something.
I think I need to start reading the Metachat threads before I click the links.
I suspect foul play, rhapsodie. He's 45, she was 22, met online when she was 19, doesn't say if they had met in person before. Gives me pause. Either way, it's sad.
yeah, I gotta agree- they "met online" and she just came over on a fiancee visa. It seems kinda clear she was a mail order bride, and unfortunately women in that situiation often end up the recipient of violence.
As long as I have lived here, and as much experience I have with the ocean, I still have not witnessed a sneaker wave.
But I know they exist, for many people get swept out to sea, and a few more get crushed by logs rolling up with the surf.
It seems like, in the past year or so, it's dangerous to go outside in Oregon, but then all or our houses are full of mold inside also, so there is precious little refuge.
Hmmmm. This report makes it sound creepier... a lot creepier. Bringing back the wedding dress - like, what? the day after? "Each time he talked about her, it got a little easier"? wtf? Going to go to where they were supposed to get married, and maybe put the ring on? All the past tense when talking about her?
This just happened... I would still be in total shock.
Maybe the writer makes it sound worse, but this article does make me wonder.
From taz's article: This Saturday he plans to head to Silver Falls State Park alone. He'll stand in the very spot where they were supposed to get married. And he'll think of her.
"I might even put my ring on," Napper said.
This seems like the kind of private thing you wouldn't want to just broadcast to the whole world. Guy seems a bit chatty for someone who's fiance hasn't even been dead a week yet.
Who's to say how you're supposed to act in these situations? When the World Trade Center collapsed, I saw several people walking towards it, and laughing convulsively.
What is the normal response to a dingo eating your baby?
I could see suspicion if they were married and there was talk of a divorce, like that woman whose family suspects her husband tossed her off a California cliff some years back. But they weren't married, all he had to do to get rid of her was refuse to marry her, and she couldn't get a green card. Heck, he probably paid to bring her here.
I admit it does seem sort of odd in more than one way.
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