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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get ready for the displaced anger, acting out by drinking more, ramped up porn addiction, and other ways in which men express grief because they're too weak to face sadness.[/quote]

Whatever you're thinking, it isn't healthy. Your parents dying in old age shouldn't be emotionally traumatizing. [/quote]
The way men deal with grief is invariably unhealthy. [/quote]

There shouldn't be much grief to deal with when y9ut parents die. Surely you're not expecting them to live forever. You knew they were/are very likely to die in your lifetime, possibily with some warning when you get to the final years.

Why would you wait to accept death until after it happens? That seems invariably unhealthy.[/quote]

That is absolutely bizarre.  I am from a culture that does pretty well with death rituals and incorporating death into life.  We all know we are going to die and our loved ones may die before us.

But we still grieve the losses when they happen.  There is still a ln absence in your life where that person used to be.  Maybe if they weren’t an important person in your life or you won’t miss them much or you had a superficial yet uncomplicated relationship, you wouldn’t grieve much.  But most people grieve the death of a loved one no matter what their age, if their presence was important.  [/quote]

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