"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:
If I had lost 22 friends to accidents in those 11 years, I would not be
flying.


If I had lost 22 friends to accidents, I wouldn't leave the house. Hell,
I count myself lucky to have two friends that aren't nurses. The friends
I have at work are subject to employment... ie, if they leave our current
place of work, we will lose track of one another.

As for flying, I personally knew three people who've died in airplanes...
two of them died in the same accident. None of them were friends but I
was friendly with all of them and vice versa.

I've known one person killed in an airplane and that was our family doctor
(and his son) who disappeared in his Bonanza over Lake Michigan when I was
12 (1967).

I knew three people killed in car accidents (my sisters MOH at her wedding),
and two relatives, both from severe DUI.

OTOH, my daughters high school class lost three kids in three TA's over the
last two years before she graduated (both my sons classes escaped
unscathed).


Matt Barrow