Godzilla vs Kong star Kaylee Hottle dies aged 18 after car accident
www.the-independent.com
Deaf actor was best known for portraying the ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ character Jia, a teenager who communicates with King Kong via sign language
  • superduperpirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    6 days ago

    Well shit.

    My pops died about a decade ago from old age. It wasn’t a surprise, and we’d generally had a reasonable amount of time to grieve so it wasn’t hitting us all at once.

    The funeral home that handled his funeral, at the same time they were also handling the funeral of a local high school girl who’d been killed in a car wreck. I never saw any of the next of kin, because I guess they normally only schedule one wake at a time.

    I really felt (and still feel) for her and her family. Dad got to live a long life, have a career, have a family, and die in his sleep in his 70s. She, on the other hand died before she got to get out on her own and live a life, and it would’ve been devastating to her family to have her ripped away like that. Not to mention the strong chance that she was conscious and suffering as she died.

    She’d only be 26 or 27 today, if she’d survived the wreck and the recovery.

    Even with long term grief counseling I don’t know how you’d ever get over that, burying your child.

  • Nangijala@feddit.dkEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    Too awful for words. Any death is a tragedy, but it’s particularly devastating and bitter when it’s someone who had their whole life ahead of them. I really, really hope she didn’t suffer. I can’t imagine the pain her family is going through.

  • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    it says 18 now, wow that is so sad, RIP :( I hear cars or motorcycles rev to racing speeds at least once a night and I’m no where near a highway, drive safe

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    111·
    6 days ago

    When are we as Americans going to finally stop accepting that car deaths are a part of society?! We don’t have to do this, we could make driving safer but we actively choose not to. We don’t enforce speed limits, we don’t build safe streets, we actively build our cities to push as many cars through as possible with safe type being an afterthought, and this is the outcome.

    I have car people thinking I’m a risk taker for taking the bus because one violent crime happened a few years ago. I say I’m doing the safer approach because you can ask anyone how many car related deaths have happened this week in just their state and they wouldn’t know because it’s so common!

    We just accept this as normal!