Based on the context and the answer, generate a question. 

Context: A friend of this blog , and someone some of you know ( virtually ) died recently . I only received word recently and found it hard to believe . I was going to post this several days ago , but there was a contretemps on the blog and I did n't want to get that confused with this . Now that such issues are largely over , I feel able to post .

Answer:

They were young .



Why is it so hard to believe that someone died ?