If you spend extended time in the world of flying training then eventually someone you know dies in an accident.
Amen to that, it used to be that anyone who spent anytime in flying at any level knew someone who was killed in an accident; things are much safer these days but the potential is still there, accidents still happen.
mad_jock.
morbid but something people seem to want to deny could ever happen.
Not morbid at all, very good post.