Compared to future, 2016 not so bad

While an apparent tsunami of high profile deaths this year – Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, Abe Vigoda, David Bowie, Prince, Fidel Castro, Gene Wilder, George Michael, Antonin Scalia, John Glenn, Florence Henderson, Juan Gabriel, Ron Glass, Arnold Palmer, Janet Reno, “Vanity,” Glenn Frey, Morley Safer, Patty Duke and Muhammad Ali to name a few – has many among us clamoring for the 2016 exit, I am not eager to walk out the door and into 2017. Somewhere during childhood we realize death is part of the cycle of life, though maybe it is not until our 30s that we contemplate mortality.