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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes I think there is really something wrong with me. My father was a great person. He grew up in poverty, worked incredibly hard, and gave me and my sisters and my mom a really nice life. He loved and cared about us. He died the day before Christmas in 2021 at the age of 89 and it was a huge relief, as he had been in very bad shape for 18 months. Two of my three sisters had also died in the years leading up to that. I continue to feel a lot of pain from losing my sisters at pretty young ages (42 and 53), even years later. But losing my father did not change my life--other than now I have to deal with my mother and my one remaining sister, whom I love but is a huge pain in the butt, all by myself. I just accept death, especially of parents and especially when they're old, as a natural part of life. I miss him, but I just never understand people who act like it's tragic and like it should rock my world. Seriously, is there something wrong with me?[/quote]

Same here.  Besides seeing it as the natural order of things there was also tremendous relief as each parent had suffered a long and ugly decline which caused fighting between me and my siblings over caregiving duties.  I am sad that they are gone but they had become people I did not recognize.  [/quote]

DP to add, I also lost a sister besides my parents and my sister's death was the most traumatic for me, even today. We were close, she had two young kids, and it just wasn't right nor fair. [/quote]

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