1.   First of all, my dearest man friend died of cancer, aged forty-two.

2.   This fall, the second friend died in a car accident in ambiguous circumstances.

3.   He has recurring flashbacks to the night his friends died.

4.   My oldest friend died of cancer three years ago.

5.   Another close friend died last mouth after a year of struggling with cancer .

6.   And then a friend dies of cirrhosis of the liver.

7.   Another friend had died of a drug overdose in another state.

8.   As he awakes from a dream or from a minor stroke, he watches a magician friend die performing a trick on television.

9.   Asanovic said two close friends died.

10.   Blatt, who saw his friend die, also blames diet for the morbidity at the exchange.