Dad passed away in 2003. Mom is 72 and seemingly in good health. I will be 50 in december.
Panache, you will be around long enough for us to exchange posts for a lot longer than that.
I’m 58 - both parents alive and kicking at close enough to 90. My oldest grandparent died in 1957, and even though they are all gone they did live to be 80 plus.
Can’t really answer the poll question, as I’m not sure.
I’m 37. I think there’s some chance my dad is still alive, but haven’t heard from nor had contact with him since 1975 or so. He was a deadbeat, and wage garnishments occasionally show up in my mom’s mailbox a couple of times a year (there’s something kind of amusing about receiving child support when you’re a member of AARP and your kid is >30), but then he disappears from the IRS’s radar again for a while. I don’t think anything has come in for a while, so he might be dead. Or just schlepping whatever spouse and kids he has now around the backwoods of Georgia, like he happened to do in the 80s and 90s.
Mom’s still alive, 64 this year. Shouldn’t be; her health problems should have killed her in the 50s, and she’s had severe problems in every decade since.
Don’t know if my first stepdad is still alive. Second, abusive stepdad is deservedly dead (harsh, but there you go). He acted like a temper-tantrum throwing child, and among his charms, he refused to take care of his diabetes because he said it wasn’t fair… he ended up in a hospice blind, with his legs cut off, open wounds all over, and brain damage from strokes that reduced him to the mental equivalent of a baby. Third, amazingly patient and kind, stepdad is still alive, and relatively healthy barring hearing issues.
I have a new friend who’s 19, and in our getting-to-know stage, found out that both of her parents died within two weeks of each other in her senior year of high school. One from a sudden onset disease, the other from an accident suffered during treatment for terminal disease. She’s the one who found them both. She’s still dealing with the trauma, understandably; not just the shock of the deaths, but the ways in which they happened, having to deal with the extended illness of the one, etc. Experiences that I simply can’t imagine, and I never have figured out what to say. I just hug her.
I was going to ask how you could have not seen your Dad since 1975 if you were only 31!
The wishful thinking that could cause me to lower my age? Note the age of the woman I’m befriending…
Over 12 years later and still hard to think about, but on May 22, 1999 my father died of a heart attack at about 7:30 AM. I talked to my mom and made arrangements to fly home for the funeral. At about 3:30 PM the same day, I got word that my mother had a heart attack and died as well.
Went home for a double funeral.
A part of me thinks this was a good thing - they were very close and I think they would both have wanted to go together, even in death.
Still, it was and is very hard to talk about.
Both. 92 & 85. 90’s common on both sides but I used to smoke…
I’m 38. Both my parents are alive.
Mom is 68, and has some major health issues which are currently under control. Her mother died suddenly at age 70, possibly of a stroke. Her father, who was my last living grandparent, died in July at age 95 and was in good health until very close to the end of his life.
My father will be 75 in December. He is fairly healthy, but I worry about him because his father had some form of dementia before he died.
Not only are both my parents alive, at 79 and 82, but I have a living grandmother, who is almost 107. Her birthday is 12/17, so she’s three quarters of the way there! Grandma was born one year to the day after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk.
I’m 46. Mom is alive and kicking. Dad shuffled loose 7 years ago.
stroke took my mother in 1995 at age 67. i believe it was stomach cancer that took my dad, and that was in 1998, iirc. we don’t live long in my family. they were 67 and 73 respectively.