I've lost a bunch over the years. All were good friends. Lost the guy that stood up for me at my wedding in 1960. He passed in 1995. Last month I lost my good friend Clint, he died in his sons arms while deer hunting of heart failure. All are still missed.
I have Had a Rough Day
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You explained it well. I'm not afraid of dying and the relief from pain is a blessing but it hurts when our friends leave us behind. I lost a lot of good friends (like family I never had) when a ship sank with all hands many, many years ago. And it made me think of the old joke that the good die young. Isn't it God's blessing to die young and not suffer the pains of growing old? But as we grow old don;t we think of them even more and miss them even more?
I am sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.
This brings up a very important point for us guys north of 50.
Get your annual PSA test and prostate exam. When it is detected early enough and hasn't spread outside the prostate it is one of the most curable cancers.
If it isn't detected soon enough and metastasizes and spreads to other parts of the body it can be a painful way to go. One of the most common places for it to go and start to grow is into your bones. Having the rapid growth of tumors growing INSIDE your bones is a very painful thing. One of my uncles died that way.
I got my diagnosis almost 4 years ago and I was fortunate enough for it to be discovered before it spread.
GET YOURSELF CHECKED. It can be the difference between life and death.
This brings up a very important point for us guys north of 50.
Get your annual PSA test and prostate exam. When it is detected early enough and hasn't spread outside the prostate it is one of the most curable cancers.
If it isn't detected soon enough and metastasizes and spreads to other parts of the body it can be a painful way to go. One of the most common places for it to go and start to grow is into your bones. Having the rapid growth of tumors growing INSIDE your bones is a very painful thing. One of my uncles died that way.
I got my diagnosis almost 4 years ago and I was fortunate enough for it to be discovered before it spread.
GET YOURSELF CHECKED. It can be the difference between life and death.
I was a member of a very tight-knit high school class (1957). I think we spent our teen years in a very good era - Ike was in the White House, the Korean war was over, and we didn't have to lock our doors at night. Gasoline sold for peanuts. We learned to drive cars and started dating. We learned to shoot guns responsibly and many of us owned them. No serial numbers. No mass shootings. "Happy days" for sure.
We hung together as friends through the years, even having both 10-year reunions and yearly luncheons.
We are now in our 80s, and the downside is that our numbers are dwindling. I checked our class roster several years ago and noted that about 25% of us no longer exist. I am sure that even more of us have since passed.
In the past several years, I lost a sad number of good friends. Each one was a personal loss for me. My longest-running friend who was a neighbor of mine growing up is suffering from Parkinson's disease, and despite treatment and rehab, is dwindling visibly almost every day. I will not take it lightly when he goes.
We all have an expiration date. Last year my college girlfriend passed from cancer, suffering dementia in the process. I didn't learn about it until months after she died, and regretted that I didn't get to see her at least one more time. She died all alone sleeping in hospice care.
When those you really care about leave, it hurts - really hurts. Like George Burns remarked on his old age, the only benefit is "no peer pressure." It's sadly inevitable. Someday I hope we all meet again up there.
My sincere condolences on the loss of your friend.
John
We hung together as friends through the years, even having both 10-year reunions and yearly luncheons.
We are now in our 80s, and the downside is that our numbers are dwindling. I checked our class roster several years ago and noted that about 25% of us no longer exist. I am sure that even more of us have since passed.
In the past several years, I lost a sad number of good friends. Each one was a personal loss for me. My longest-running friend who was a neighbor of mine growing up is suffering from Parkinson's disease, and despite treatment and rehab, is dwindling visibly almost every day. I will not take it lightly when he goes.
We all have an expiration date. Last year my college girlfriend passed from cancer, suffering dementia in the process. I didn't learn about it until months after she died, and regretted that I didn't get to see her at least one more time. She died all alone sleeping in hospice care.
When those you really care about leave, it hurts - really hurts. Like George Burns remarked on his old age, the only benefit is "no peer pressure." It's sadly inevitable. Someday I hope we all meet again up there.
My sincere condolences on the loss of your friend.
John
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