A loss beyond words

Rico says he got an email yesterday from his cowboy-action-shooting friend Bill Calloway, known in CAS as Mild Bill, reporting the death (via motorcycle accident) of his 48-year-old son.
A phone call to provide what meagre consolation you can provide in such times was made; Bill sounded sad, of course, but recovering.
Some things cannot be imagined, and losing one's child surely qualifies.
Given Rico's near-brush with death four years ago, he can only imagine what his parents were going through at the time...