Our friend died early this morning.

I still can't believe it. People our age don't just get cancer and die, it just isn't supposed to happen that way. To die in a car crash, maybe, that happens ... but how can a young woman just get sick and die? It's so hard to believe, let alone come to terms with. She did everything "right" - super-healthy organic diet, exercise, mindful living ... and got ill despite all that. Cancer is a hideous disease.

She really tried hard to fight it. She read, researched, explored various treatment options, went through chemo with a fantastically optimistic attitude. Throughout the whole ordeal, she never succumbed to depression. Despair, sometimes, but not depression. She was truly living with cancer, leading the fullest life possible up until two weeks before her death. And now she's gone and I'm furious at the unfairness of the universe.