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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both my parents are alive. I wonder if people are using it colloquially to refer to their emotional state rather than their legal status. Even the official legal use of it is weird as I’m very much alive, but am dealing with the Orphans’ Court following the death of my minor child’s father. I don’t consider my child an orphan, but that’s what the division is called.

Grief is very, very strange and if an adult finds orphan the closest they can come to expressing how they feel moorless after the death of both parents, we can either accept it or try to help them find a more appropriate term. I’ve felt this way for a long time about the fact that we lack a word for a parent whose has lost all of their children. [/quote]
Yeah, we don't really have another word for an adult who's lost their parents, even a young adult.  Even if you are a grownup when your parents pass, you can feel adrift, unmoored, unanchored; i[b]ndeed, it might make you feel more like a child, emotionally, and there are limited ways to express that.[/b]  [/quote]

Try hard to find another, more appropriate word, FFS.  [/quote]

So, suggest one, FFS.[/quote]

Nostalgic[/quote]

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