How many people in your circle of friends have died?

[Anonymous]

58--a lot, and these were very good friends:
2 from suicide in their 30s (one post partum),
1 from falling down stairs,
3 from cancer.

None from drug overdoses.

[Anonymous]

Early 50s

In our 40s, 2 friends lost their husbands to heart attacks, and 2 cousins lost their husbands to cancer.

Also in our 40s, a one of my oldest childhood friends died of colon cancer. She’s the only person I can think of from growing up/high school (other than the girl who committed suicide our junior year), but my graduating class had over 600 people, so I’m sure others have died over the years.

Recently, a college friend died of cancer. There have been others from my class, but she was the one I knew best.

On the other hand, my neighbor and his wife are in their mid-90s and still spry.

[Anonymous]

I've 55 and have lost the three people I was closest to in college: my BF (cancer), my best friend (sudden cardiac arrest), and my roommate (murdered).

[Anonymous]

I'm 46. In my peer group, 4 people.
My best friend died of a rare cancer at age 37 which sucked super hard.
2 died by suicide.
1 died in a freak accident at work (construction).

Now, the number of people I know battling auto-immune disorders is super frightening to me, and what I worry about a lot. My own husband had a major cardiac event at 43, and he is in objectively very good health.

[Anonymous]

47. No one in our close circles but an acquaintance died from heart attack last year, he was 50s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread scares me so much

It's only people who have friends who died responding.

I am 39 and none of my close friends have died. I have had not close friends die, but I didn't even really talk to them.

[Anonymous]

A few. 52. It’s all been different flavors of cancer. And a suicide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

7 in your neighborhood alone in the last 5 years?? Something is going on there! That’s not normal.

[Anonymous]

^at least, I hope not. Terrifying.

I had a friend pass away of cancer in her 50s, and two acquaintances in their 40s.

[Anonymous]

So many suicides.

[Anonymous]

62 years old

One mom of cancer when our kids were in preschool it was awful.

One mother drug overdose got hooked on pain meds after an accident. Police are still not sure DH didn't help her out....

Two dads in their 40's died playing tennis and basketball.

A friend;s DD died of mastitis a few years ago. That was horrifying she just had her first child.

[Anonymous]

51.

Spouse at 38 heart attack
Childhood friend at 32 breast cancer
College friend at 45 breast cancer
Friend’s spouse at 52 suicide

[Anonymous]

One very good friend died of a brain aneurysm while running at age 29. He was super fit. Two friends in their late 30s died in a car accident which orphaned their children. Terrible losses I think of all three daily.

[Anonymous]

I lost 5 friends between 45-60. Three were due to type 1 diabetes, one ovarian cancer , one breast cancer.

[Anonymous]

I’m late 50s. In friend group going back to high school, 2 same age friends currently battling breast cancer, wishing better treatments ahead. Also a friend lost her spouse to cancer (brain, age 52). My husband has lost 2 work friends to cancer—50s, esophageal and lung cancers. Growing up, a few of us lost our dads in their 50s to cancer (smokers). Get your health check ups and screenings.