So many people seemed to depart in 2016

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But I had to wonder if that was really true, or it just seemed that way. Well, it looks like it's really so. Just found this odd snippet on the BBC. It is the number of obituaries they published during the first quarter of each year from 2012 to 2016.

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Obviously this isn't just musicians, and we can expect a slow climb as my generation - the baby boomers - starts dying off, but double in one year? I wasn't expecting that. Let's hope it is just a blip and we return to a more normal level in 2017.
 
There must be a large group of people hitting age where we lose them. I know my grandfather is 89 and my grandmother is 93. My Mom and all my uncles are WW2 babies...
 
Or the beginning of the end is near------roadmaps ----get yer roadmaps ----- cant find a path without a roadmap!

ALiens on isle 5.......

Breaking news at 11 .......
 
So according to that graph, 5 people died in 2012 and 24 in 2016.
Yep that's an increase but given the number of us our chances of going under the bus are looking slim. ;)
 
Weird dream last night. It was 1970, I was in a joint in Oakland, don't think it's there anymore, Jimmy and Momma Reed were on stage ...Bright lights, big city, gone to my baby's head, Mike Bloomfield says, "The car's waiting we gotta go, catch us at the Blue Queue, in about an hour." Suddenly, I'm hustling Jimmy and Momma into my 57 Buick Super, the car I drove in 1970, and we're on Telegraph avenue, headed for Berkeley. When we get to a row of store fronts and an old theatre Momma yells, "Stop the car." I do and she and Jimmy get out and head for a line of people queued up for the box office, Jimi and Janis are holding their tickets. "We gotta get in line, man," Jimmy says. I try to find a parking spot, to catch up with them, but they all suddenly fade into grey shadows and the sun rises, and they are gone and I am driving wildly through the streets looking for them.
 
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DonP said:
But I had to wonder if that was really true, or it just seemed that way. Well, it looks like it's really so. Just found this odd snippet on the BBC. It is the number of obituaries they published during the first quarter of each year from 2012 to 2016.

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Obviously this isn't just musicians, and we can expect a slow climb as my generation - the baby boomers - starts dying off, but double in one year? I wasn't expecting that. Let's hope it is just a blip and we return to a more normal level in 2017.
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I try to look at it like I'm Schrodinger's cat, when you open the box, I'm either alive or dead. I'm getting to the range where I'm playing with the houses money. I think of how many friends have passed in their tender years and this cantankerous old bastard has made it this far, I take every day as bonus round.
 
Last year was a bad year for me. I lost 9 friends/family in 9 months. ^ Like Tony said..."Ooh! I woke up! Cool."

Everyday you wake up is a good day :D
 
Tony M. said:
"...and thus did the brand new and brightly shining forum descend into morbidity and despair."
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morbidity and despair
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That may be the name of the musical comedy duo I saw at a community college talent show yesterday. These guys made I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus weirdly dark and sinister. I kid you not.
I am still a little stunned by all of the musician and personal passings this last year. But I am blessed with creative drive and sufficient native intelligence to apply myself to positive or at least helpful pursuits. I am also blessed with sufficient daily challenges to keep my faculties, reasonably, sharp.
For 30 years, I have been a terrible sleeper. Brain just wont turn off consciousness for more than three or four hours. A couple of weeks ago, no change in diet or meds, I suddenly started getting 6- almost 7 hours, deep, restful sleep. Even if awakened to attend a sick loved one for a few minutes, I go right back to sleep. No explanation, just reporting...........
 
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