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I Will Always Remember What Is Important To Me

Another dead child dying in a car
If you need to put your cell phone in your back seat to remember you have a child
Not only should you not be a parent
It should be mandatory that you never have another one

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Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M

How many of these cases make it to a jury trial? How would leaving a child strapped in a car seat be explained to a group of parents and grandparents? The idea of a child dying like that enraged and baffles.

MaryJanine · 61-69, F

It's happened before and will happen again. There are people who conveniently "forget" their child is/are in the car with them. Just like there is those parent or parents who have had enough of being Mommy or Daddy and arrange for those kids to drown or suffocate or something else. First they deny doing it, then confess to doing it later. There are several "semi-cold"cases in the news right now where the parents raised Hail Columbia when their kids died in some sort of tragedy, then admit they did it.

rckt148 · 61-69, M

@Crazywaterspring Most of them are ruled accidental ,and thats it
I am sure it ruins the parents life ,I know me ,I would never be the same
no words of comfort could undo the event
I would replay the day over and over the rest of my life .
I gave up driving for 9 yrs ,when my drinking and driving almost killed my wife
she still bears the scar of my ignorance ,losing a child that way
I might kill myself ,,
So I do not post this with lack of sympathy for those who have lost a child ,
but one was to many ,now its a common thing ,thats why I am mad

MaryJanine · 61-69, F

Have you seen the latest one where some adult killed his two daughters and his wife, then spent at least a week saying they were kidnapped and killed - only to admit he had done it? That is surely not accidental. That is deliberate.

I am truly sorry about the event involving you and your wife. I grew up with an alcoholic childhood household. I used to be scared to get into car when my father had been drinking. As an adult, I look back and realize it was by the grace of God that me, my mother, and my siblings survived potential car crashes or near accidents.

Don't attempt to kill yourself. The memory will never go away for either of you, true, but you must go on in whatever length of life God decides to give you. Don't leave anyone who will be left after you to mourn and ask why you did it. Both of my parents are gone now, but although I miss them greatly, I have too much to do to end my life prematurely.