Well it finally happened,
Someone I know very well has died from coronavirus.
She was a 91-year-old woman who had been the widow of a dentist who fundamentally helped me build my dental practice from zero to what it finally became.
She was the kindest, sweetest, most interested, and genuinely caring individual Whom I have ever had the privilege of meeting among my peers. She was intrinsically involved in almost every aspect of her synagogue, of which she was a lifelong member. She will be missed by many hundreds of local individuals whom she had counted as genuine friends. She raised four intellectual children in a progressive and pragmatic manner and imbued each of them with a sense of decency, kindness, and a real affection for humanity and for the progress of civilization.
Lest you think that 91 is a terrific age to live to, and it is, I had run into her near Rittenhouse Square where she lived about two months ago and she was just as bright and fiery and charming and sentient as she had been 45 years ago when I met her. Her mother lived to age 100, and had been fully cognizant, humorous, and full of life to nearly the very day she left this earth.
I awakened this morning to the Philadelphia Inquirer, I turned to the obituary page as I normally do and simply stopped breathing when I saw her name. I left a message for her son who is also a dentist and ask him to please call me when he had the opportunity, that I knew it was an extraordinarily busy time for him. Within an hour he called me and we spent nearly an hour and a half on the phone reminiscing, discussing her influence upon so many, and what he said he felt about the loss of his mother, his responsibilities to the family, and the nature of the dynamic which she had left so quickly.
In my objective opinion, as a clinician who is treated many geriatric and super geriatric patients, she had a long time, relatively speaking, left to live. The lightning bolt which killed her is almost incomprehensibly resolute in its effect.
I, like many others, will miss her terribly. She is among the last of a generation which has passed and is passing into oblivion, ironically having survived the depression the various maladies which may strike anyone, she was felled in my opinion, by the actions and inactions of one Donald J Trump. I will add this to the debit sheet of Unforgivable sins which he has committed.
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I am sorry for your loss and for her family's loss.
I am so sorry for the loss of your friend.
I fear your first sentence is gonna become a statement shared by many of us as the days trudge by.
I'm so sorry. Sounds like a big loss to your heart. All my sympathies. We're lucky, indeed, when we have people like that in our lives. For however long we're lucky to have them.
I’m crying a lot lately. Every person who passes because of this is tearing us all up inside. And that’s how we should feel. None of these deaths needed to happen. We have to remember them so this entire Trumpian disaster will never be forgotten. Hugs to you and to her son and family. 
Thank you for sharing a bit of her with us. Some contribute so much to the world, and are gone too soon. I hope she didn’t suffer.
deaths caused by the virus and Dump's negligence.
