11.   -- After a long illness, a close friend dies.

12.   A friend had died recently after battling ALS.

13.   A friend of mine died two months ago while I was in the middle of the World Cup, and then came vacation.

14.   A good friend recently died of breast cancer.

15.   A resistance organizer during the Gulf War, Ahmad has nightmares about the day he watched his friends die.

16.   A woman whose dear friend has just died of breast cancer might ignore the downsides altogether in deciding to be screened.

17.   After his friend died, Cease was hospitalized briefly as a suicide risk.

18.   After his sons refuse to become charmers and his friends die, he feels death stalking him, too.

19.   After watching her best friend die, she sure needed one.

20.   All have watched friends die of AIDS.