This morning i opened an email and was smacked in the face with the news that a friend of mine (ex-firefighter) was killed in a plane crash on monday.   It took my breath away.   He was working for the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa,  and was supposed to see his family (he is survived by his son and daughter) for the first time in nearly a year. It terrifies me that life can be so brutally taken away from us,  yet every shift I deal with death.  I suppose having it so close to… Continue