[theoddz]

Originally Posted by Medusa

It's a bad feeling when you come across a photo of someone you went to high school with in a friend-of-a-friend way on Facebook and you go to check out their profile and friend them and realize they died last year.

She was 35. Thirty fucking five. Cancer? At thirty fucking five.

I still have photos of us together in high school in all manner of fuckery. Photos of borrowing each other's prom dresses and doing each other's makeup. She was my friend and I can't fucking believe Cancer got her.

MJ. I remember you.

Wow, that's sad. I'm so sorry for your loss, 'Dusa.

I have a subscription to the web site, beenverified.com and I've been looking up my former classmates on that. I know, I'm nosey, but I'm not doing it out of malice. I just want to know where many of my old friends (whom I hesitate to "catch up with" because I grew up in the "bible belt" and I know that most of them come from conservative backgrounds) got to.

I've found a LOT of them to be "deceased". Now, I know that my generation (later years of the baby boom, mostly born in early/mid 60's) isn't nearly as healthy as the generations before. We tend to have more cancer and chronic disease than the folks before us, but heck.......I'm 53 y/o and so many of my contemporaries are DEAD??? Jeesh, my 92 y/o Mom still has friends, who, at their ripe old age, are still alive and mostly healthy.

It's depressing. I've got to stop reading the obituaries in my hometown newspaper.....and looking up folks on beenverified.com.

Either that.......or get a prescription for Prozac.

~Theo~