I KNOW DEAD PEOPLE

[Duchess]

I found out over the weekend that my childhood best friend had died. After college I left the area and she got married & started having kids. We lost touch and life moved on, nonetheless it was still sorta shocking to me. I inadvertently found out when I came across her obituary. Her picture accompanied it and I could see the girl she was when I knew her. As I was thinking about her I realized I know a lot of dead people, it feels like an abnormal amount. Do you know many dead people?

[Carsman]

Yes, sadly too many to count.

[MirahM]

Same.
Always wierd to hear news about someone passing through social media. I seem to have a small handful of dead people on social media too.

The one that I think about most is a friend from college. I had put a message out inviting anyone to come over for Thanksgiving and he did. And sometime in between Thanksgiving and Christmas he had passed away. And I didn't know that i was talking to him on that night. He was just planning to go visit his sister for the holidays and starting a new job after so I didn't think it was wierd when I didn't hear from him.
I didn't find out until his birthday popped up and I went to wish him a happy birthday and found out he had died.

[cannongal]

You must have led a really sheltered life.    

I remember playing at the wakes and funerals of dead relatives in my early childhood,  I remember going to services of dead classmates in high school.   Death happens,  it's part of the circle of life. 

Now I understand why you were so freaked out during covid.  

People die, all the time,   did you think that you and your friends are exempt?