SweetSue92
Diamond Member
To be honest, this is shocking when you see it in your community.
I am going to the funeral home next week for the second person I know whose cancer exploded "unexpectedly". When I looked up her obituary at a busy funeral home in my town, I was struck by the ages of the deceased on the front page. (I really was.)
So I looked at a few pages and averaged the first twenty numbers I saw. To be fair, I left off a teenager in our town who tragically died in an accident.
The average age of death was 72.5.
That is a rapid decline, and shocking in your own community. No wonder funeral professionals are speaking out. It means that, sure, you see the 90 year olds. I also saw 64 year olds and folks in their upper 50s dying "unexpectedly".
This can't be hidden for too much longer.
I am going to the funeral home next week for the second person I know whose cancer exploded "unexpectedly". When I looked up her obituary at a busy funeral home in my town, I was struck by the ages of the deceased on the front page. (I really was.)
So I looked at a few pages and averaged the first twenty numbers I saw. To be fair, I left off a teenager in our town who tragically died in an accident.
The average age of death was 72.5.
That is a rapid decline, and shocking in your own community. No wonder funeral professionals are speaking out. It means that, sure, you see the 90 year olds. I also saw 64 year olds and folks in their upper 50s dying "unexpectedly".
This can't be hidden for too much longer.