Dolly, my heartfelt sympathy and prayers for your friend, his family and his loved ones. How sad that all these children have lost their fathers so early in life.
This is one of the mysteries of life I am still trying to figure out. It just makes everything else seem so trivial in comparison. We just need to live every day as tho it may be our last, live life to the fullest and be grateful for every blessing.
Maybe that's it, to help show us that loving each other the best we know how and caring for each other is really the secret of life. Everything else is just petty.
Tony did die young, but he really, really lived. He was an instrument for God's love and kindness on Earth.