Chinua Achebe, the writer of "Things Fall Apart", died on 21 March 2013

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe

I don't want to say more. A couple of days back what were you doing. You can breathe but he won't.

One my distant relative died as well.

Lesson learnt: People die. Life goes on. Till your breath becomes a past :) too philosophically-poetic-and-shitty.