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Life is change. This I know and accept. Birth, death, sadness, joy, blue skies, pouring rain... We experience it all in our days on the planet. Seems death is taking a leisurely stroll through my life lately. In addition to the death of a friend's husband, we have had four family deaths since January. Two were seniors in their 80s, two were my age; all had spouses, children, family. The seniors had grandchildren and great-grandchildren. None were "expected" to die, in the sense of what we generally mean when we say such things. (And I know human beings like to avoid the topic but aren't we all expected to die eventually?) My friend's husband's funeral was too far away. She wasn't looking for us to attend and we did not. We did attend the two local funerals but not the two in my hometown. As much as I wanted to, I could not attend those funerals. In addition, unless it's for one of my parents, I won't go north again f...