How life plays things out... I was told earlier today that my best friend in this world has died. We haven't talked for the past 4-5 days (we usually catch up

How life plays things out... I was told earlier today that my best friend in this world has died. We haven't talked for the past 4-5 days (we usually catch up on the weekends - but this past weekend he had a packed concert-going-schedule - we live in different countries so I couldn't join). What sucks the most is that we use(d) Signal, and we have autodestruct every 2 days so apart from some really old emails, I got nothing left from him, and our frequent "correspondence". I am using the "Henry Bemis" moniker because he was making fun of me and my reading and I was making fun of him and his frequent cinema-going (and we both loved THAT episode of the Twilight Zone - Time enough at last)(great episode btw!!) And now I got into HN and I saw the black banner on top and I thought "WTF is going on today with the deaths!" and my stomach got a bit tighter. It sucks when people we love die. It's what Keanu said to Colbert "those who love us will miss us". My friend also "..would like to live five lives in the course of one life", but alas, he managed to live half of it. Farewell to those who fade/reincarnate/cross the river Styx/go to hell/go to paradise.. we will miss them. I don't maintain a blog, so I'll be keeping this bookmarked. Apologies for the 'spam', I wanted to get this out of my system. Anyway, sorry to hear Lynn Conway has died, looked technology just lost a great contributor.