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3. Shortly afterwards, there is this exchange between Weer and the nurse:
"Please, I've got to see the doctor. I'm dying."
The nurse: "All these people are ahead of you."
Ted Singer and Sherry Gold are both obviously much younger than I, but there is no use arguing with that kind of thing. (4)
This seemed fairly clear to me. "Ahead of you": They died first.