[LibWhacker]

The high school I went to has an "in memorium" page online that keeps track of the students in my senior class who have died since graduation (1966). To date, it's 104 students out of approx 500. And of course, that's only the ones they know about; since graduating these students have moved all over the country (and the world) by now and lost touch with each other. No one knows how many have really passed on. But I'll bet it's significantly greater.

Is it shocking? Not very. If you don't expect it, your head must be in the clouds. What really does catch your attention is the increasing rate of death as the years pile up. A few years ago, maybe five or six were dying every year. Now it's more like 20.

[libstripper]

I’m HS class of ‘61 and haven’t kept up with my old class. The number has to be a lot worse for mine than yours.