Whoa, major bummer, guys. What's with all the bad juju?
At the risk of using old cliches, life's what you make of it. You
can sit around waiting for death, or you can grab life by the
scruff of the neck, shake it for all it's worth and see what falls
loose.
Go on - do something that you always wanted to do but were too
pragmatic (read scared) to do. What have you got to lose? 