# I need to face my parent's mortality

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 16, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-face-my-parents-mortality/553991 "2010-09-16T18:18:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-face-my-parents-mortality/553991/21 "2010-09-17T23:45:23Z")

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> [@lavenderviolet](#):
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> My dad died at 57 and my mom died at 63. Lucky me. So, yeah, it is realistic to worry about it, but what can you do? Just enjoy the time you have with them. Try to be nice to them or make peace if you need to while you can. Then when their time comes you will be okay. It was devastating for me when my parents died, but I survived it.

Ditto this. My Mom and dad died at age 62 and 63 respectively. No fun at all, my tears were unnumbered, but one can gain wisdom from sorrow.

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-face-my-parents-mortality/553991/22 "2010-09-18T13:13:11Z")

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You never know. My mother’s mother (grandmother) lived to be 87. My great grandmother lived to be 95. My mother died at 60

On my dad’s side, his mother was also 95 when she died. Her mother was 89 when she died. My dad died at 51.

My grandparents and great grandparents, were from the hills of Yugoslavia as were my parents but they all came to the USA after WWII. So perhaps it had something to do with lifestyle, well not perhaps.

You just never know, you can get upset about something but death happens to us all, unless you know something the rest of us don’t.

Any one of us could step out onto the street and get run over by a bus, so start enjoying the remaining time, it may be later than you think.

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