I would feel that way, also. Losing a very long term partner is a horrible blow. You go through the grief to get to better times on the other side--but if the

I would feel that way, also. Losing a very long term partner is a horrible blow. You go through the grief to get to better times on the other side--but if there's no other side to get to, why go through it? My memory is that the Canadian rules require more time than that so he probably had already set it up.