When someone passes who is younger than me, and it is not suicide, drugs, or a freak accident, it makes you think.
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Yup, it’s also a “for whom the bell tolls” moment for me when somebody famous (esp. the ones younger than me) passes away.
I am a classical music person. So many of those guys die young. Except when one skews the bell curve, like Elliott Carter dies one month short of Birthday 104.