When somebody dies, it is always an upsetting event but when it is a child, it is especially difficult to handle. Unfortunately, there is sad news and it is affecting thousands of people who hear it.
The news involves parents who have twins and the 4-year-old girl and boy passed away after crawling into a toybox. Unfortunately, the parents, Sadie Myers and her husband, Don Starr were unaware of what was happening because they were sleeping at the time.
The story was shared on Facebook by Myers, who posted some of the heartbreaking details of what happened. She was asking for prayers and warning anyone who has a large toy chest that they should ‘destroy it immediately.’
The 4-year-old twins, Aurora and Kellan went to bed that evening while she was working. The father put them to sleep and then went to bed. When Myers got home, she checked on the children and everything was okay.
After eating some dinner, Myers also went to bed. She never could’ve guessed what would’ve happened while they were sleeping.
At some point during the night, the children got up to play. After getting tired again, it seems as if they were ready go to sleep.
“Friday night the weird place they decided to snuggle up and go back to sleep was in their cedar toy chest that we use to store all their stuffed animals.. They pulled out all but a couple stuffed animals, I guess they left some to keep it comfy in there, then they laid inside head to toe with one arm each over their twin and I’m assuming said ‘good night kell kell’ and ‘night night sissy’…
“Sometime during their sleep one of them must have moved or kicked during a dream and it caused the lid of this old wooden cedar chest to close,” she continued. “Something I did not know and I’m sure many others don’t know is that most wooden toy chests once closed are AIR TIGHT and also sound proof. So as they slept, all snuggled up together, they slowly ran out of oxygen within a couple of hours and passed away. They never even knew it was happening. There was no sudden gasp for air, it was a very slow transition from sleep to passing on.”
When the parents got up in the morning, the older boys were already awake but the little ones were gone. They began searching and one of the older brothers found the twins in the toybox.
He said: “Mommy I found them! They are so silly just sleeping in the toy box.”
It only took Myers a moment to realize that the babies were gone. She wrote: “It makes no sense to me and never will.”
They sometimes say that losing a child is one of the most difficult types of grieving we can go through. We can’t even imagine what these parents are going through, as a loss to children and are trying to help the older boys to deal with the grief of loss as well.
“Not many will know the pain of losing two children at the same time and losing them in a way that makes no sense, but I have to believe that something in this universe chose them specifically, maybe to protect them from some future tragedy, or maybe because their souls were too perfect for this world, I don’t know, but everything in me hopes that I will know someday, because not knowing hurts too bad to keep living.
“What I do know is that I NEED to live for my two amazing big boys, and I WILL, I will make it my sole purpose to give them the most amazing lives, to not let this cause any life long damage to their mental state. ”
The father also posted on Facebook, saying that he delayed posting because he felt it was a horrible dream. He wrote:
“I guess I was waiting to make sure this isn’t an extremely long, specifically horrific nightmare. But since it’s just getting harder everyday and it seems pretty public now anyhow, here goes: My beautiful family was stricken by tragedy — the loss of our beautiful perfect twins.
“Please send all of the love, strength and good energy you can muster up to Sadie, my beautiful big boys and me — and of course the rest of the family, who have been a rock for us and are more loved and appreciated than I can express. Hug and kiss those kids for me — even the grown-up ones. I love you all.
We hope they are able to find comfort during such a difficult time. May the little ones rest in peace.