How many people in your circle of friends have died?

[Anonymous]

How old are you?

How many of your friends or people in your friend group have died?

How did they die?

I'm 54. I count two -- one colon cancer, the other dropped dead from an aneurysm. Coincidently, they died within about 5 months of each other about a decade ago.

Nobody since then, although there have been some health scares.

[Anonymous]

It’s an unusually large and unexplainable number, now that I think about it!

Why are so many healthy normal folks dying off all of a sudden. ?

I am 74.

[Anonymous]

I am in my mid-40s.

I had someone I know die of suicide in their 30s, and someone of cancer in their 30s as well.

My spouse is same age range but had a lot more people from childhood die of overdoses and car accidents before reaching 30 or 40 but came from a lower middle class upbringing.

[Anonymous]

Early 50 yo. In college we were 4 girls in the same group of friends. Lately one died of pancreatic cancer and one of metastatic breast cancer. Of other people my age I knew from school/friendship circles two died of car accident, one of a neurodegenerative disease, and an other one is still a taboo (it happened in the late 90s so maybe AIDS, mental health issues or drug related?)

[Anonymous]

In my early 40's.

One of my hs friend's died from lupus/alcohol addiction last year.

[Anonymous]

I'm 54. Far too many due to drugs. Also two from rare cancers. One from Covid during the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Late 30s. Of the 5 women in my bridal party (8 years ago), two have died. One from DKA, one from lupus. Horrible.

[Anonymous]

I’m 51.

One to bile duct cancer- not going to spell out the long “real” name
One to brain cancer- not a glioblastoma
A friendly acquaintance to lung cancer- non-smoking
Another friend currently has colon cancer and it’s very bad.

Cancer is not good in the 45 and under age bracket

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s an unusually large and unexplainable number, now that I think about it!

Why are so many healthy normal folks dying off all of a sudden. ?

I am 74.

You are near the average life expectancy. Some will make it to 90, but there have to be people in their 70s who balance that out.

[Anonymous]

I'm 55. One friend died from ovarian cancer in her mid 40's.

[Anonymous]

I’m 50.

None from my closest friend circle have died.
One from my wider circle of college friends passed away when we were in our mid 20s (she was hit by a car).

[Anonymous]

Spouse is 60, but he's had 4 people he knows die before the age of 60, and one before 66, and one at 69.

Only one was due to a non illness.

[Anonymous]

I'm 57. In the past six months, a high school friend died of leukemia and a college friend died from some sort of abdominal cancer that spread and killed fairly quickly (before they figured out the original cancer).

I am someone with large friends groups and hobbies so maybe my number is higher.

In the past ten years, give or take, three friends have passed from brain tumors (glioblastomas). The father of one of my son's friends died from a heart attack in his early 50s. A husband of a friend died unexpectedly - another heart issue.

So 7 total in roughly ten years, late 40s to late 50s.

No one in my peer group died from covid, though some friends of my parents (in their 80s) or parents of my friends died, either from covid or other older age issues.

[Anonymous]

I’m 50. One died last summer of a heart attack. A few have had heart attacks but not died. Ironically, the one who died was in the best shape.

[Anonymous]

This thread scares me so much