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pseydtonne · 3994 days ago · link · · parent · post: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies | The Billfold
One of my coworkers died a couple years ago. He was one of our team members in Argentina. We stopped hearing from him for a couple days, which was very unlike him. It turned out he had died of a heart attack. The miles suddenly mattered. I would work with this guy every day, lots of chat. Suddenly he was too far away for any of us to attend the funeral -- Mendoza was as far away from Boston as Moscow, even if it was only one time zone ahead. I was a little freaked out that he had died from working too hard. I was worried that I was working too hard as well. My boss explained that he was corpulent, more so than in his possibly doctored IM icon.