By My uncle died today; he was in hi mid-60s.
My mother, her sister and her brother are all heartbroken. I'm not really overly close to any of my relations so it's not affected me to such a great degree. But it has made me consider the mortality of my parents. He's the first member of that generation of the family to die, and it's brought me to the realisation that my parents are of a similar age and I could so easily be writing a eulogy for one of them rather than sharing my thoughts about their mortality. Although, to be honest I'm not sure that I'd share that with people here; at least not at first anyway.
When my maternal Grandmother died I was only 5 so it didn't really sink in that much. My maternal Grandfather died when I was about 10, which did affect me greatly. It was through him that I developed my love of football; going to as many Peterborough United home games as possible on the front of his old bicycle. The death of my maternal Grandfather came about 2 years later and the death of my paternal Grandmother about 2 years after that. Neither didn't affect me that much; I think I'd realised by then that Grandparents do eventually die. I don't think the death of anybody within the extended reaches family is likely to hugely affect me, not being cold or heartless just a realistic acceptance of the fact that people die. However, I would probably be affected by the death of a close family member.
Farewell Bill, we'll miss you...
