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When I lost my grandparents in their late 80s, my family reflected mostly on what a long, happy life they had. When I lost my sister-in-law due to an unknown b
by nostromo 6y ago
When I lost my grandparents in their late 80s, my family reflected mostly on what a long, happy life they had.
When I lost my sister-in-law due to an unknown brain tumor at 28, it was a catastrophic event from which her entirely family has never recovered.
To say that these deaths are equivalent doesn’t seem right to me, even though I agree we should do everything we can to preserve healthy lifespan for everyone, young and old.
- tsimionescu 6y agoYou were probably lucky in that your grandparents died a peaceful and expected death. When I lost my grandmother in her late 70s the day we were visiting for her birthday, to a sudden heart-attack, all my family could feel was the hollowness left behind by her absence, and thoughts of all the life events she would miss, things unsaid and so on.