Found out that a secondary school classmate of mine actually passed away two years ago from cancer. To be honest I don't know her very well but I remembered her to be a very polite and decent girl, which sometimes were the target of our jokes.
Sometime as we all move on with our different paths we don't make the effort to keep in touch, taking for granted that everyone else would be doing fine in life. When I heard this news I was affected by two things - firstly was that a pleasant being dying at a young age, and secondly was that how late such a news can reach to people who know her.
It's the third death that I knew of from my secondary school's batch. What can I say? Life's full of surprises.