Audio Obit

"You could give me hours,...weeks or months for that matter, to try to tell you about my friend Brandenn, but it wouldn't be enough. Brandenn was the nicest , most caring, loving , sensitive, wonderful person I've ever known. He was like an angel, he was such an amazing person. He was such a very good friend to me....he was such a very good friend to everyone. Besides his loving nature, his gift to us all was his music, he shared it so willingly and fantastically. He had such an awesome presence....a really really positive presence. We all love him a lot."

by Sydney Lee Smith
March 17,2005
(13 years old)

I was on my way to my youth group when my mom and dad stoped to talk to me and thats when i heard the news of Brandenn's death and I will never forget the emoutional pain i felt and when they said he died from a gun shot wound i asked "who did it dad" and when he told me that he did it I sad "no he would never do that", but I knew I had to belive it I just didn't want to belive it. Brandenn was one of my best friends and I just didn't want to belive it.I have know Brandenn for a long time and I remmber all the good times I hade with Brandenn and i know our loss is great.I think of it kinda of a relife that Brandenn is in a better place now in heaven I mean and I want to send my hugs to Patty and Martin Bremmer because they were like a 2nd family to me and I really liked going up there me and Brandenn would do what all other normal boys would do ride our bikes, go swimming, play fetch with his dog, watch cartoons and drive his car around his house when he got it. that is what i want to remmber about Brandenn and i know that everone loved him alot I know I will always love him.

That story if very sad.

I bought Brandenn's second CD and it is excellent! His musical maturity greatly increased during the time since his first CD. His introduction of birds, water and other sounds layers his audio works into interesting listening experiences. And there might be a third CD released of some other recordings he did.

I strongly beleive that Brandenn commited suicide
because when he grew up he start having problems understanding what is right and what is wrong,
you are told, but when you see reality,in your mind grows big conflict, when you have the intelligence to comprehend like he did and you realize that menkind is doing everything against a natural purpose and you realize that everything you were
told was right, does not match, then you try to evade reality, because reality sucks, humans do not understand the purpose of life, his life, and the proof is, what are we doing to everything around us, was the world made for sale? think think think Gabriel

I just heard about Brandenn's death. It makes me sad to think that he took his own life without leaving any note or any kind of indication of why. Suicide is, in fact, such a selfish act. It seems, to the person contemplating suicide, to be the only way out of a seemingly hopeless or difficult situation, but in reality suicidal people are really only thinking about themselves. The grief that his family feels is beyond my comprehension, and my heart goes out to his parents. Losing a child such as Brandenn, with so much promise, must be devastating. It is unfortunate that even the "smartest" of most people could not forsee the pain and grief he would cause by doing this unspeakable act.

after my mom died in my arms from a massive heart attack i too did not want to believe it. many came to me before during and after the funeral saying "ITS GOING TO BE OK", "IF YOU NEED ME IM HERE FOR YOU", i just wanted to scream ,no its not going to be ok and no i dont need you i need my mom!!!!! however, they say time heals all wounds, it doesent but with time you learn to live with it. i want to tell brandenn's family and friends, hold your heads high, be proud because you had what we only can read about this amazing boy. and always know if anybody can be a gardian angel its him. he did so much in life, you can only imagine what he can do now. francie lawson, alabama

Who knows why he did it. Obviously he had more pain than anyone could ever imagine. It is not fair to talk of how selfish his act might have been. At that age,I realize he was very smart, but still he was a 14 year old boy, and at that age I don't believe people can really comprehend the finality of death. I'm sure he did not wish to hurt his family. Let's focus on how much he did for others while he was alive and what a brilliant light this young man was.

maybe he had felt there was nothing to live for. maybe he just didnt fit in to anyones cliches. he was too different no matter how you compare him to others. he was unique and most likely lonely. all he did was help others but when the time came when he needed someone there for him.. there was no one. he really is a lost genius and if there was anything to avoid this issue i wish it couldve been done.

Brandenn was not selfish. He was 14 and live a life no one could live. HE was an awesome and great to know. Branden just beleived in helping others and my way of dealing with it is he want to help others so he donated his organs. I will always miss him i think about him every month on the 16 the day i found out. If u knew him you were truly lucky to have such a wonderful person in you life.

I think regardless of the brightness level of that kids mind. he was pused too far to fast to deep bby his parents. Wich parent in their right mind would take an IQ test on their 3 year old? Which one would give their sone a gun at age six and let him keep it? regardless of his intelligence HE WAS A KID for christ sake. Seems like his parents Wanted him to be special and in a way thei pushed for certain things to happen, why else would they skip him from 4 to 8th grade.

I am mother, and I am speaking from experience.

Besides I do not believe in IQ tests, Those tests revealed two different things throughout my life. First I was quoted 80, even though I had straight A's, and recently I was quoted 140.

who cares anyway? It is like creating a machine that can measure Love. "Ok I will hook you up to this machine and will see if you love your mother more than your sister does". How can I be 100% sure that I am 100% better or smarter or my love is bigger towards somebody if people are so inmensely different, only an ignorant person would be able to affirm that. I could be great at math and be born in the age of the caverns where nobody counted... What good does it make? Will that get me food? NO! I would have to learn other skills or I would die! So does that made me smarter? Better?

That is INSANE, these tests are designed for and by people with little minds, who need to measure things on their scale in order to understand them.

They are unable to love and accept things the way they are, they need to have an excuse to love, or to give preference. Or simply to feel special.

Terrible thing to happen to the poor kid, he grew up surrounded by wannabies who were not able to make it themselves so they had to push him to be somebody he did not ask for neither cared to be.

I honestly think he was just a little brighter than average, it does not take a whole lot of anything to learn basics of construction in one single weekend. I did it, I learned many things in matter of hours, and I have seen many people do it as well. All you need is somebody to take the time to explain you and teach you.

You sound awfully bitter and slightly jealous. Not to mention the grammatical errors in your post from someone 'just as smart'. These posts are for people to honor Brandenn's memory, not to trash him. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

Get real, he wanted to die to donate his organs? This is so absurd. He was probably living his life for his parents. They sound like they expected too much regardless of how intelligent he was. Parents of
"gifted" children tend to put too much pressure on the children. Especially given how much these children already put on themselves. The child was depressed and he killed himself. There are plenty of people who feel just as he did. You don't do him or any other suicide victims any justice by suggesting that he believed that being an organ donor was his big contribution to society. May this poor restless and sad soul rest in peace.

Obviously Brandenn Bremmer was a good-looking, smart and amiable kid. However when you scratch the surface Brandenn Bremmer had a number of reasons to be stressed out and I don't think his suicide is without explaination. Now that he is dead people are still exploiting him to advocate their own causes. I have read every explaination on the web from the fact Brandenn Bremmer was not following X religon, to finding out his parents were republican. However these people have not looked past the headlines. The boy was thrown into the media spotlight at 4 and had just figured out he did not want the life that had been predestined for him by those that ment well. combine that stress with puberty, a loaded gun and you have a dead kid.