JK and Chewie I'm really sorry to hear about your friends. I do';t know how it s for anyone that close to die but within the last 3 kids that went to my HS have died, one in my graduating class comitted suicide, another had a brain anayrism in his sleep, and another died in a car crash on the way to a school event.
Too bad about the pope, I'm not catholic and I'm not really a church going kind of guy, but still it's too bad. It was bound to happen soon though. Every other pope has died, he wasn't going to live forever like many almost believed, I did sense that in several Catholics that I know. Well he's headed to a better place anyways.