A few weeks back, our high school and college batch held its annual Mass (via Zoom) for all our classmates who had passed on. Counting the nine classmates who had departed since last year, the total stood at 130 out of about 200, or about two-thirds of our original number. For a group of seniors in their early ’80s, it’s not a bad record, since the average life span of male Filipinos was 67.4 years in 2020.
Still, the accelerating rate of attrition did not go unnoticed, and we knew that fewer and fewer of us would be around to attend the annual Mass in coming years. In fact, we have a standing joke that the last man standing would have his hands full calling out the individual names o…
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