I think we're all dying? Now that I'm getting up there in my 60s and my husband, over 70, I am more conscious that there isn't a "lifetime" ahead of us. I see how we need to not concentrate on the possibility this may be our last day, hour, month, whatever but also be more careful how we spend our time, what we say to another, etc. Not so good at that yet (don't practice enough :-)

Most of my really good online friends I have turned into real friends. I was thinking about that last night; an online friend sent me a Christmas card last year and I did/have not responded and was thinking of doing that today, guess I'll do that right now! I guess I would only want to know medical problems/that they had been diagnosed with a fatal illness if there was something I could do to help. I do have a good online/actual friend now with COPD, on continuous oxygen, who now can only get around by wheel chair, her arthritis is so bad, but they cannot operate because of her breathing. I try to email and keep in touch more often. I guess I mostly would want to know since someone struggling with a debilitating/deadly illness is not going to be able to get out as much, will be more limited in "scope" and my bit of communication might be a welcome part of their life. I do that with my older relatives, too; my 93 year old aunt, etc.