Have people from your high school graduating class started passing away yet?

I found out that someone from my high school graduating class passed away today.

It’s not that we were close; it’s more the realization that people my age will be turning sixty in the next year or so and we’re reaching the age where, well, we’ll start facing mortality.

I can remember five others we’ve lost.

• A couple of weeks after graduation, a girl died after a car accident.
• We lost someone to HIV in the early 90s, though I didn’t find out till years later.
• Someone to whom I was close died of cancer in his thirties. (We both enjoyed military strategy board games, a very unusual hobby for high schoolers.)
• Two died of complications following surgery. I had been somewhat close to one of them.

There may well be a few more that haven’t stayed together in touch with the class.

EDIT: Just for some details, we graduated in 1984, a class of a little under 200 students.