More and more of my favorite authors have passed aways

I had always been a reader so at 72 my list of favorite authors are many decades long and of late I am finding a even larger percent of those men and women are no longer with us.
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It had reach the point that I am both surprise and happy when I come across the information that some of those authors are still alive and some of them are still adding books.

At the moment due to my just having fallen madly in love I am feeling like a late teenager otherwise this long death list would have gotten me very down.