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Threads like this remind me a lot of you are genuinely children or so young you never experienced life for long enough to see people you know die. Don't worry, you will. It is inevitable. The older you get the more you'll become aware that (you) and everyone around (you) is on borrowed time, and that every second is pulling the people you know and love away from you - and there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. Oh, and lest I forget - people usually don't just die, barring accidents. Death is a process, a long, grinding, tedious, merciless process that slowly takes away everything you knew of the person dying. And you are powerless to stop it. You can only watch and no matter what you do and how much help you give it is not enough and cannot be enough and is ultimately futile.
Welcome to life, it's a winding down of the clock. It's happening to you too at this very moment, and every moment, until there is nothing but the agony of dying. For now, you are young and think you will live forever. Mortality never crosses your mind. But once it does the awareness of it will be your constant companion in everything you do, think or feel. You will never be free of it. After a certain age its presence is always behind your back. Death is forever there, watching. Waiting. You cannot escape and nobody escaped. Its patience is unmatched. It knows it has won already.
So at least try not to be retarded during your short stay among us.
