While it is commonly shown in media, the “seeing everyone you love die” thing is generally reserved for immortals; but it can happen just getting old, too. You’ll likely die long after your grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles. And if you’re very unlucky, a lot of people younger than you as well.
I never knew my grandparents. My aunts and uncles all passed over 15 years ago. When my mother died 10 years ago I looked at my siblings and said “we’re the old people now” because there were no adults from our youth left alive.
While it is commonly shown in media, the “seeing everyone you love die” thing is generally reserved for immortals; but it can happen just getting old, too. You’ll likely die long after your grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles. And if you’re very unlucky, a lot of people younger than you as well.
My grandparents died when I was 7. Mom died when I was 25, my step dad finally in 2022 and my biological father just last year. I’m 40.
I never knew my grandparents. My aunts and uncles all passed over 15 years ago. When my mother died 10 years ago I looked at my siblings and said “we’re the old people now” because there were no adults from our youth left alive.
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