Life is not so much about how long one lived as how one lived. For instance, Tim Russert, one of a few highly-esteemed American journalists, lived but 58 years, yet his life was one rarely rivaled in both accolades garnered and respect earned.
Live to the fullest, and leave with little or no regret.
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Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted an eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball. Russert covered several presidential elections, and he presented the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey on the NBC Nightly News during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Time magazine included Russert in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. Russert was posthumously revealed as a 30-year source for syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
I don't have contact with any of my former classmates so I shall never know their whereabouts and how they die. Hopefully they're still alive because they should be under 50 now. Not old enough to die in droves, I guess.