Posted on 10/08/2022 12:16:32 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The full statement from the Casten family is below:
“This past June, our daughter, Gwen Casten, died of a sudden cardiac arrythmia. In layman’s terms, she was fine, and then her heart stopped.
We don’t know what caused the arrythmia, and likely never will.
Gwen was a healthy 2022 teenager. She ate well, exercised, got regular check-ups, didn’t suffer from any behavioral health issues, and had close relationships with family and friends. She was fully vaccinated, and quarantined after occasional positive, asymptomatic COVID tests during the omicron wave. She had just come home from an evening with friends, went to bed and didn’t wake up.
We are heartbroken, but we are not unique. Sudden, unexplained heart-failure among young, healthy people is rare but real. We are left grasping at the wrong end of random chance.
We are grateful for the outpouring of love we’ve received over these past months. We’ve cried again over each of your letters, messages, meals, and flowers, but they are appreciated. We are also grateful for the donations to the Downers Grove North Friends of Fine Arts and March for Our Lives, causes that Gwen was actively engaged in during high school. It is a comfort to know how many lives Gwen touched over her 17 years.
“She had a big, beautiful, kind, loving heart. And it stopped, as all must.
None of us know when our last heartbeat will come. The best we can hope for is that when our loved ones do pass, we will have no regrets about the time we were lucky enough to share.
So hug the folks you love a little harder today. Be present in their lives. And spread your love a little farther. Because in the end, it’s all that remains.”
The proximal cause of death is unimportant.
It's the distal cause of death that interests us.
Like someone with AIDS whose Death Certificate lists "kidney failure" as the cause of death. That is merely the proximal cause of death - when the actual (distal) cause of death was AIDS.
Regards,
Safe And Effective Way To Die.
“Where were you when it happened again?”
It only happened once.
Shush. Don't get in the way of ignorant postings!
I’m having the same trouble feeling empathy for dead clotshotters-—except where they are kids doing their parents stoopidity. The same for parents of “overdose” fentanylists. They know they’re using dope. Give them the money to buy it. Then are shocked, SHOCKED, that the kid dies eating it. And they all had “bright futures.” But Stoopid intervened.
Everybody dies with a cardiac arrhythmia.
I’m guessing that’s why they felt safe going with it.
I think I solved the mystery. The clue is in the second paragraph!
She was fully vaccinated....
The answer is right in the middle of their explanation.
Yes, I have listened to all of Yuri’s warnings, warnings to America that no one paid attention to and here we are today. There likely are millions of Americans who have yet never heard of the guy. Heeding his warnings are likely too late now. It’s still a mystery who got to him and silenced his message.
“She had no health issues and was fully vaccinated. We can’t imagine what could have happened.” — The definition of cognitive dissonance.
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