Maybe I shouldn't think about it too much

Recently, at Logan.  Nothing bad occurred, but I think I would have been unnerved to have been on the plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTZkXPQ_Aoo
Earlier this month, also with no injuries, there was a wing & wing collision at Logan while the Jetblue & Southwest planes involved were on the ground.
http://www.whdh.com/story/25726709/southwest-wing-clips-jetblue-plane-at-logan
There have been two Hanscom-related crashes in the last few weeks also, one fatal at the airport, the other remarkably
not so - a plane that crashed into the woods near the Burlington Mall, instead of onto the highway or mall itself.  I had no idea that some little planes had parachutes for themselves.
I fly once or twice a month, and Arthur (on average) goes even more. 

it's true about funerals, too

"Public radio is a great way to discover heroic, inspiring people who have just died."

https://twitter.com/dessadarling

I went to a funeral yesterday, for Rick Abrams (insert obligatory fuck cancer remark). He was a co-worker of Arthur's in the late 1970s and again sometime in the 1980s, and he lived less than half a mile from us in Lexington, but we weren't close, so I learned a lot from his friends' remarks at the funeral.