My parent's generation are beginning to drop like flies

[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff]
The really depressing part is I have lost almost all of my contemporary friends, …
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And, one hopes, almost all of your enemies as well. :wink:

50 - as others have mentioned, it’s that time of life.

Thanks, all, for the sympathy.

[QUOTE=Frank]
And, one hopes, almost all of your enemies as well. :wink:
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Now that’s an interesting thought that really cheers me up!

It comes.

My parents are getting on…but still in good shape…my uncle is 89, and despite a lifetime of smoking and boozing, is in remarkably good shape. Still, we are not immortals, and the day will come. I think about it, and it really hits home when younger people pass on.