How many people in your circle of friends have died?
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Anonymous
| 48 and 2: bike accident and overdose |
Anonymous
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I'm 58.
Out of my '89 college class of 1100, 35 have died. Mostly heart attacks (men) and cancers (women and men). A few accidents. No suicides. In my sphere? In the last 5 years I have seen 7 of my neighborhood female peers widowed. All 50s-60s. ALS, didn't wake up at home, didn't wake up at home, heart failure on vacation, didn't wake up on vacation, cancer dead within 2 years, cancer dead within 3 months. Only 1 month after the wedding. The only female peer I know of who recently passed literally went on some kind of fitness hike in a state park and stepped wrong and fell to her death. Several months ago. She was very healthy. Far healthier than I am. |
Anonymous
| Gosh. I'm 71 but none the last few years. By the time I was 55 there were 2 suicides (both women), a lung cancer death, and a stunning liver failure due to alcohol death I never would have imagined. In the last 10 years a CO death in a mountain cabin and lung cancer only found when the person was in critical condition due to diabetes and HBP. |
Anonymous
Health is the number one best thing. Cherish it while you can. |
Anonymous
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Mid 50s. A cousin died of cancer in her 30s. The husband of a friend dropped dead of a heart attack in early 50s. Another died in early 50s of a brain tumor.
I know several more who had cancer or other serious health crises but are doing ok now. |
Anonymous
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It threw me quite a bit when I found out that a guy I'd had a complete crush on in my freshman dorm group (RA group?) who was a college athlete died at 50 from complications of atherosclerosis
I was so in love with him. At 18 I would have married that guy but he got targeted by another girl with better game than I had. Now I'm 60. And I think that girl he married might actually have done some prison time for fraud |
Anonymous
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In the last couple of months, 2 close friends my age died--one from a massive heart attack and one from nonsmoking lung cancer. I'm early 40s.
Before that, lost a friend to murder (killed by an acquaintance). |
Anonymous
| Friends - only one from my close circle. She died very suddenly of an aneurysm. She was 50. I have acquaintances who died and older family members but only one close friend so far. I am 52. |
Anonymous
| I’m 45. I lost one very good friend (previously my best friend) to addiction. 1 good friend to suicide, 1 good friend to cancer, 1 formerly good friend to illness (we had lost touch but weren’t estranged). In my broader circle of acquaintances who are my age, at least 2 suicides, 1 car crash, 2 illness |
Anonymous
The husband of an acquaintance died in 2025 from bile duct cancer. What a horrible disease. (And I agree about the "real" name. It makes glioblastoma look like 2nd grade spelling word.) He was 50 or 51. Such a loss. |
Anonymous
| A friend of mine in high school died of leukemia. She was 16. So far everyone else from my high school group is still alive (late 30s). |
Anonymous
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57
Six people. One on 9/11 (age 33), the rest cancer (three in their 40s, two in their early 50s). |
Anonymous
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I can honestly say that in my immediate circle, not many. 1 last year due to lung cancer (she did not smoke, but cancer doesn't really care). I am 56.
of my larger circle -- too many. Father of an older peer of my boy from glioblastoma HS classmates - cancer, domestic violence, brain aneurysm, hit by drunk driver, some sort of multi organ catastrophe (more than a heart attack) on the day after Thanksgiving 20 years ago, suicide x2, liver failure due to substance abuse, and more. |
Anonymous
| 15:21 again, Forgot 9/11. Friend died at the Pentagon. He was 31. |
Anonymous
| I'm mid 50s. Live perfect. My generation is dying from really awful things The cancer gets you in the end. |