My brother Tim passed away unexpectedly at the age of 18 last night. Nobody is ever prepared to bury someone so young, your first thoughts are they’re just starting their life. Tim spent 2 long days in the hospital hooked up to so many machines they ran out of space to plug things in in the room. How can one healthy child go to completely brain dead due to a stroke and brain bleed and unresponsive in 2 hours? The doctors still don’t have answers and we may never know what truly happened. He was put into a coma after he collapsed at my house. This was all unexpected as he had just turned 18 on September 8th. The other day he was telling the family how excited he is to get his first job. We were planning on new beginnings, this is not something we would ever expect. Please help us with any donation possible. Our family is completely devastated and in shock. It’s going to hurt for a while but I know he’s up there reunited with our father.

PS- this photo was taken the moment he was pronounced dead, his hand in mine after he was taken off life support from a medically induced coma.