Friends don't make our bodies any stronger. It matters very little how many friends we have...a plague hits and we are all dead. A person with awesome friends can get hit by a bus the next day. Our bodies can only fight off so much....just like the flu (as you know, Lycanthrope). It's scary, but we are very mortal and I don't think people like to think about that much until they lose someone close to them or are forced to think about it in other ways.

As for how "beautiful" we are on the inside...our insides are about functionality. We are organs and muscles and bones and other systems, etc, that we need to survive. It's not about beauty.