Makes sense to me. My grandfather was, coincidentally, 92 when he
passed a few years ago, and it was probably a shade less expected than
Gene's father, but close. I was mostly happy that he got to hold his
great-granddaughter while he was healthy enough to enjoy her. He had
been experiencing more pain and losing the ability to care for himself
at an increasing pace in his last months, and was not able to enjoy
much.
And in the abstract, you can start grieving for someone before they
die, start feeling the loss, so that it's less of a shock when it does
happen. It's especially prevalent when the patient has dementia or is
in a coma, since the patient is in some ways not the same person or
cannot be related to in the same way as before by family members.
-Max
On 9/26/06, Daria Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why was the loss of his father a 3.8 family tragedy? That sort of
> makes it sad. It would be a 10 for me. Even if I knew that they had a
> long life and didn't want to suffer... It would still be a vacuum.
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