lives remembered

This last year was one filled with more deaths than any other year we could recall. Those who died ranged from young children to the so-called elderly [doesn't 95 count as elderly?] and this year is beginning with memorials also. Life is indeed brief and death is indeed inevitable. Some we knew died suddenly, or relatively so, while others experienced a long good bye. Whichever way one dies, those left are still painfully bereft, unless