[.William]

This is just sad.

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This isn’t the way you should learn about the death of your 17 year old brother.

According to Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph, twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis had just woken up on their 20th birthday. Like most young adults, they logged onto Facebook to check their walls and inboxes for birthday greetings.

Instead of finding happy birthday wishes, the two twins found messages of “RIP Bobby” (their brother) and “RIP Chris Naylor” (a friend of his) all across their Facebook news feeds. Completely shocked, baffled, and hurt, the two rang their brother’s phone in the hopes it was a mistake. It was to no avail.

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Source / read more: http://mashable.com/...-brother-death/

[amon91]

Learning it especially through facebook is definitely terrible. I can only wish their family well.

[BenjaminCharles]

That must be rough. I pray for this family in their hard time. Finding out via facebook... =/

[c0lin]

Another reason to be angry at facebook.

[Will_Stutler]

my goodness, the heart ache alone is unbelievably heartbreak-lying numbing. but to find out on facebook must add a stinging pain to the soul

my heart and my thoughts go out to the family, no amount of time will heal this wound. all anyone can do is give them as much love as they can,

[Mephisto]

That's pretty intense. It really sucks that the family did not know about all that sooner.

[Karmakaze]

Damn! That is the worst. I feel sorry for them.