Mortal.

[rhythmaning]

A couple of weeks ago I learned that a friend from my teenage years had died. Pancreatic cancer. I don't think I had seen her for over 35 years (I may have seen her at the occasional wedding or celebration since, though I can't remember doing so), but she was a very good friend of one of my oldest friends, and I know several people who knew her

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[chickenfeet2003]

I can relate to this. I have reached the point where my friends/colleagues/former team mates are dying with some regularity. Yesterday I wore a rugby jersey from the set that my friend Neil Sorbie played his last game in. I remember he wore 7 that day as he almost always had. The jersey I have is not the one I wore that day but still. Neil died of cancer six months ago. Yesterday I saw another former team mate at the LCBO. He is deteriorating mentally really badly. He's a former university teacher but he didn't recognise me. He hasn't for about two years (we are neighbours so we bump into each other). I'm not sure which is worse.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, at some point death changes from "That thing which happens in the background to, like, old people" to "This thing which is clearly picking off my generation one by one, and will undoubtedly get around to me at some point".

And when death gets personal, it's going to change your approach to life.