I’ve reached an age when I scan the obituaries every day to see how many people my age have died and what they died from. I feel horribly cheated if the cause of death is left out because then I can’t take any comfort in the fact that I don’t have that disease or don’t engage in that activity which somehow translates into my mind as a reason why I won’t die soon.
I am buoyed when the majority of the people in the obituaries are over 70. I have a distance to go before I get there – though