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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for those of you who have parents who immigrated to the US but now they are at the age where their parents (gradparents) are getting older/sick and they are flying/half living back in the country where they were born. Anyone experiencing this in their family? Is this normal? [/quote]

No. [b]State [/b]and other relative take care of the parents. I don't need to fly there for everything. They most likely will go fast when it's time to go because [b]they some and drink too much[/b]. No need to rush there when someone is dead. They can sit in a jar and wait til I have time to bury them or have other people do it. We haven't put such burden on younger generation for a long time. Time to go, time to go. [b]State will take them to old people's house[/b] and you just hope for the best.[/quote]

Wow! What country is this? The elderly people are drinking too much? Where? Is this Russia?[/quote]
No, but similar culture. [b]Most people go fast when they go. We don't drag ones life out to 100 with medicines and having them under machines. [/b]The ones who take some care of their health, live longer. Most people, specially men, go fast because they never bother to go to the doctor and by the time ambulance is needed, it's too late to get them back to health. Just googled life expectancy for my country and the US, and we still outlive you. Women outlive US women, men don't outlive US men (I could've guessed that). Combined, we still outlive people in US.
My father who has drank and smoked since he was probably 18, is still kicking at 71. My mom stopped smoking but keeps a vodka bottle next to her kitchen table. They both are on some blood pressure medicines, but body can take only so much. They should go fast when it's time to go.[/quote]

This is the way it should be.  The current American system of "the most important thing is saving lives" of 95 year olds is absurd.[/quote]

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