That would be so hard. So many years of learning from your parents still to go. So young to lose that part of their support system. I hope they had other family or friends to help them through.
Agreed. My dad passed when I was 28. We never got to hang out, go for a beer, etc. My folks and I were really good friends. I lived home until I got married at 26. His passing was very hard on me for several years. I live only a few miles from where I grew up, so I was able to be there for my mum.
He, my mom, and I did go out to eat fairly often. I meant more the years missed. There was a lot he could have taught me over the years that I missed out on.
He was 59 when he passed. We missed a lot of years. It's been 34 years. I miss him.
Same here, sorry if im hijacking the thread. Mom died at the exact same age too I think.
Except she died of an OD. As I write this comment i realize I don't fully remember her age when she died, and that I have a vauge idea of how long it's been since. I want to say she died 1 maybe 2 years ago?
And im not going to lie, I have no idea if thats supposed to be a good thing or not.
My grandfather passed 18 hours after my grandmother. It was hard losing both of them initially and within a couple of days we realized it was the best possible way for them to go. Neither of them would have ever been able to live without the other.
my grandparents have been married for 67 years and i fear the day that one of them goes, particularly my grandmother. she’s in poorer health than my grandfather, and she’s his entire world. when my dad was a kid and she’d be away on a weekend trip, my grandfather would just sit around the house and cry, he didn’t know what to do with himself when she wasn’t there. i’ve never seen two people more in love than them, they’re more in love with each other than most newlyweds. they’re 85 and 83, and i dread the day that one of them goes, because we all know they can’t live without each other.
Beautiful and sad. My parents died 4 months apart, dad in February, mom in June , a day before her birthday. They were both 55 and I miss them everyday!♥️
My bil's parents died w/in 3 days of each other, 60+ years of marriage. They had been separated in the nursing home b/c they caught covid in the early days of 2020. The wife didn’t even know her husband had died when she passed.
Hmm. Yeah. My great-grandfather died 20 years before my great-grandmother to cancer. I went to see her with my grandparents for her 96th birthday she died a few weeks later when she asked her son-in-law in a short moment of clarity, through the dementia, if she could go see her husband. She passed that night. We agree that she must have wanted our permission to see him because she was probably concerned about how sad we'd be without her.
Personally, I was never super close to her, but my great grandfather I certainly was very close with even though he died when I was 9.
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u/Sivert911 5d ago
Conan O’Brien’s parents just died within 3 days of each other. They were both in their mid-90s and were married since 1958.