sad tragedy

I am very close to two of my cousins, they are more like best friends.  This weekend my one cousin's son and some friends went snowmobiling about an hour away from here.  The kid in the lead came upon a road unexpectantly and jumped off his sled to warn the others that they would have to stop.  The second kid tried to stop but got ejected from his sled and then the sled landed on him at first he jumped up and said I am alright but immediately went down blood coming out from different areas of his head.  My cousin's son is a junior volunteer firemen so he tried to do what he could for his friend ran to the road to find a milemarker to call for help and then held his dead friend for 30 minutes while waiting for help.  Once help arrived the firemen tried using the deffibralator(sp) on him but it did not work then the ambulance came and took him away the boys all went to the sherriffs department to begin the investigation into the accident.  This happened at 10:30 am and they could not call their parents until 3:30 because they could not get in touch with the boy that died's mom, and they didn't want anybody else to know until she was notified.  This poor women just lost her husband unexpectantly about a year ago (sudden heart attack in his late 40's)  I can't even imagine what she is going through right now.  I don't know this boy or his mom but I have been very upset about this since I heard.  I can picture Ryan sitting there in the snow holding his friend, and then not being able to call his parents,  I think about the boy's mom and what a nightmare she is facing now and I cry...  I think it may be partly hormonal I'm not sure but I am very upset over this.   It reminds me of something I learned in a world religion class I took a few years back.   Life = suffering