I'm sure I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again, but where previously it wouldn't have registered, now I am acutely aware of the "... after a short battle with / having recently been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer" at the end of a piece on the news about someone passing away.
It happened twice on the way to work this morning.
The first time it was for an actor who had appeared in Battlestar Galactica (of particular note as he had appeared in both the original and the remake).
The second was for a man called Hans Rosling, who I hadn't previously heard of, and having looked him up it seems like he was a splendid fellow - after all, who doesn't want to be called a "data visionary"!. If you follow this link, his history of the modern world in four minutes is fantastic.