• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    20 hours ago

    While it is commonly shown in media, the “seeing everyone you love die” thing is generally reserved for immortals; but it can happen just getting old, too. You’ll likely die long after your grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles. And if you’re very unlucky, a lot of people younger than you as well.

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      10 hours ago

      My grandparents died when I was 7. Mom died when I was 25, my step dad finally in 2022 and my biological father just last year. I’m 40.

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        I never knew my grandparents. My aunts and uncles all passed over 15 years ago. When my mother died 10 years ago I looked aty siblings and said “we’re the old people now” because there were no adults from our youth left alive.