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About 17 years ago, I decided to actually go to one of my class reunions and spoke to a former classmate who was heading up the event. I had never been to a reunion, and when I started asking about some former friends I hadn't seen in years she began telling me "Oh, he is now gone," or, " he is now in very bad health".
I was so depressed and didn't want to remember them like that, so I didn't go to the reunion and never have. Too many old people there !
Just got word that a girl I went to High School with was killed in a tragic automobile accident Apparently she ran off the road. It was icey and possibly texting involved.
In elementary school one of my classmates died of a liver disease (5th grade).
High school, classmate was electrocuted/died when he was crawling on top of a train (Germany).
I'm the age now that I'm hearing now and then when a classmate prematurely passes away. Really make you try to take advantage of every day an live life to its fullest.
I'm sure I've had some former classmates who have died. In fact, I've been teaching since 1998 and know of four former students of mine who have died (and those only because their deaths made the papers - there could be more who were not publicized.)
I will be out of high school 40 years. A number of my classmates are dead. A couple of heart attacks, cancer, a woman who shot herself in the head, a guy who was in a terrible accident and died a few years later from the damage, an alcoholic from health problems related to drinking. Not as many as you would think, though, after 40 years. Maybe 6 out of a class of 119.
I've lost 2 from suicide when they were young. One from illness and one from a car accident at a young age and 2 just this year (40+ years after high school) from cancer and a heart attack. Now that we're all in our 60's I'm sure it will become a more regular affair unfortunately.
OMFG just HOW many people do I know that have already died. Not only have I known of my own high school classmates who've died, but I've known of many friends who've died from the neighboring/rival high school, and I've even had one of my own students die too. Four years ago one of my own students was murdered while walking home at night, only a few months before his graduation. It was a total cold case and never pursued. Because my city sucks and has one of the highest murder rates in the country, they just pushed it under a rug and didn't really do much investigating. There's a girl from my high school who tragically passed away as a newlywed on her honeymoon (along with her husband) during a boating accident in another country. At my school and the neighboring school there were a few who died while attending high school, or shortly after graduating, from overdoses. At the neighboring school, a friend of mine and a long-time ex-boyfriend who I really cared about both died at or near the age of 30. I think the death that affected me the most was that of my ex-boyfriend. It's been almost 10 years now, I'm now married with kids, but I STILL cannot get over it. I've had no success with any type of "counseling" for getting over it either.
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Apparently she ran off the road. It was icey and possibly texting involved.
Not only have I known of my own high school classmates who've died, but I've known of many friends who've died from the neighboring/rival high school, and I've even had one of my own students die too. 
There's a girl from my high school who tragically passed away as a newlywed on her honeymoon (along with her husband) during a boating accident in another country. At my school and the neighboring school there were a few who died while attending high school, or shortly after graduating, from overdoses. At the neighboring school, a friend of mine and a long-time ex-boyfriend who I really cared about both died at or near the age of 30. 
