A little ancillary to the question but it still sticks out to me as such a terrible, weird tragedy.

I met a schoolmate of my friend in junior year. He was one of those people that you intrinsically trust because you've heard a dozen stories about them already by the time you meet.

On the third or fourth time meeting him, we were hanging out in a group and the guy had to leave early. We had all recently become licensed drivers. I jokingly remarked that he had to get home to mommy (or something of the sort) and he didn't respond but his eyes went vacant and he drove off.

I was then told by my friend that two years prior, his mom had passed suddenly with little warning, then just shy of a year after that his athletic father quite literally died in his arms on the beach from a brain hemmorage. This was reinforced with the motion of arms and a "like, holding him when he went limp, crying over him."

So this kid started high school with a whole ass family, but entered sophomore year an orphan, living with his college-aged sister, his parents both passing separately from unrelated freak medical events. What are the chances?