Well. That's a sobering thought for the day.

[rmd]

Huh. If I live as long as my mother, I've got 7 years 5 months left.

Well, slightly less. But that'll do for an approximation.

Guess I *am* getting older.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping you're around for quite a bit longer.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

my mom was just visiting me. she's now outlived her own father by sixty-five years....

[rmd.livejournal.com]

I *expect* I will live longer than that. It's just that since I was 16, it's sort of been there as a marker -- first, unthinkably far away, then I was kind of halfway there, and I realized recently that, yeah, it's kind of looming there in the distanct.

[drglam]

I know exactly what you mean; I've now outlived my father by 8 years.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

*nods* i understand. i think for my mom, her dad's death did that -- she was x years older, then y years older, &c.

her mother died just a couple years ago, aged 100. i hate to want my mom to focus on her mother's death, of course, but at the same time i don't think it's a bad goal to hit 100! anyway it's more comfortable, from my perspective, than having her focussed on the early loss of her father, which i think hit her very hard.

i apologize for sidetracking your thread onto my own family cruft :/ i was just with my folks and their issues have taken over my mind...

[schmengie.livejournal.com]

i am feeling ya Regis. My mom died when she was 57 years 7 months. I will be 55 in September...

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Here's to totally outdoing both our moms!

[schmengie.livejournal.com]

i will drink to that

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Make a note to be gentle with yourself that year. One of my former housemates had a rough year, including an abnormal pap, at 34--the year her mother died of cervical cancer. It took her a while to figure out that this is what was bothering her throughout that year, especially around her birthdays.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

"When Mozart was my age, he'd been dead for nine years."

[navrins]

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that.

[milktree.livejournal.com]

If I live as long as my paternal grandmother, I've got 64 years left and I'll still be alive.

If I live as long as my paternal great grandfather, I've been dead for 5 years.

Don't read too much into it.

[cz_unit]

Black train is a comin....

[muffyjo]

That's one that touches the heart strings pretty hard and puts a lump in your throat. I hear that.

word.

It is sobering

[drwex]

Not much to do about it but live your life, I guess.