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How old were you when the first one died and the last one died? It seems like by the time many people hit their 50s and 60s at least one of their parents has passed already. Do you personally know many people in their 50s and 60s who still have both parents?
I was curious because my Mom and her siblings are in their 50s and 60s and both their parents are still alive, so was wondering how common or uncommon this is.
I know someone 70 and both his parents are still alive. But I agree, most people have lost a parent when they're in their 50's.
My cousin lost her father when she was in her 70's. Her mother lived until my cousin was in her mid 80's, her brother was older. Their mother lived to be 108.
I'm 58 and both my parents are alive. My daughter is 30, my son 26, and they have all 4 of their grandparents still. They all range in age from 84 to 92. The 92 year old is the only one who still drives btw!
I was 39 when dad died. 52 when mom died. I feel blessed to have had been an adult when I lost them ...I cannot imagine losing a parent as a child or teen. Yes I miss them and yes...I wonder why they did not live beyond their years but I am blessed to have had both of them for the time that I did have them.
25 when father died, 45 for mother...I'm always surprised when I hear people in their 50's talk about having 2 healthy parents. All my grandparents but one were gone by grade school and the one only until I was in college.
It's been 3 years ago this coming week since my Dad passed. He was 86. I was 52.
Mom is now 86 and in an ALF with dementia and compression fractures from osteoporosis.
She's declining, but still in good spirits. I'm so thankful she still remembers me.
As people push back the average age of having kids - with so many people having their first child in their thirties rather than in their twenties, we will see more and more people losing their parents at an earlier age themselves. We will also see grandkids who never knew their grandparents well, or only knew them as very elderly, and who may have never met their great grandparents at all.
Personally I'm very glad that my grandmothers were in their early fifties when I was born and that I knew both of them when they were still full of life and energy. My kids knew my grandmother very well, and they loved her a lot (she died at age 87 when my youngest was about 15).
My kids are in their late 20s through mid 30s now, and they were blessed to spend many years around my parents while both of them had a lot of life and energy too - and my dad got to spend lots of time with his great grandkids before he passed away this past year.
As people choose to start families later and later, many of these relationships will be compromised or non existent, and that's a big loss for our society that I never hear anyone address.
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