I haven't figured out what to DO about this, but it makes a lot of sense in my head.

It does, and yet I don't know what to do about it either!

Job~ma Calli!

In an emotional funk again. My friend and co-worker, girlfriend of the best man at my wedding lost her brother today. She has rushed off to fly home (Bahamas) and deal with stuff. This would be devastating enough, but she lost her other brother 3 MONTHS ago. She is still so wounded from that loss. It is just too much. 1st brother was 54. Don't know about this one. She was too incoherent to talk about it.

Are we just getting to an age where death is becoming more common?

Job~ma, Calli!

Laura, I'm so sorry for your friend. How awful.

I'm apparently spending my day dealing with incompetent doctor's offices. Yay? "I have a note here saying they had made that appointment for you." If they did, they failed to inform me.

I'm so sorry, Laura. Those are heavy blows one right after another.

You don't get used to it for sure. A couple years ago when my mom lost one of her friends she told me how this was the last person who remembered the things she remembered. All of her family and friends that she grew up with were gone. Downside to being 93 I guess.

Just sucks so much.

I'm sorry, Laura.

Are we just getting to an age where death is becoming more common?

I think we are. As someone or other said, at 30 the warranty runs out and around 40 things start falling off. Of me and my three friends in my apartment complex, only one still has both parents living.

Oh how awful for her, Laura.

Sending job~ma, Calli!

Laura, your poor friend. That's just too much.

Are we just getting to an age where death is becoming more common?

I think so. My sister says she started losing contemporaries in her 50s.

A couple years ago when my mom lost one of her friends she told me how this was the last person who remembered the things she remembered.

That's so fucking hard. I am still friends with a couple people I might not otherwise have remained friends with, just because they are the only ones in my life who also remember Melisa.

meara, that makes sense to me too, but if there's a way to deal with dieting that doesn't involve watching everything you eat like a hungry vulture, I haven't found it.

As someone or other said, at 30 the warranty runs out and around 40 things start falling off.

I think Nature doesn't have much use for us after about age 40. If we want to keep living, we gotta work on it.

Yeah, I feel like I'm entering a double whammy where the generation ahead of me, old family friends and stuff, are starting to go or become precarious at an alarming rate, but my peers are also moving into the "wow, that's pretty young" rather than the "crazy freak accident" age range. Unfun.

Co-signed, brenda.

Job~ma, Calli! I hope they realize your fabulosity very quickly.