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Parents death

  • 07-04-2012 7:41pm
    #1
    Ellie2008
    Registered Users Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭


    What age were you when your parents died? I think I know a disproportionate
    number of people under 30 with only one surviving parent, just curious.


Comments

  • #2
    mackmuffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 305 ✭✭mackmuffin


    Uhm kinda morbid, but my parents are alive thank god


  • #3
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Both very much alive. Hopefully will be for a long time too.


  • #4
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    One down. :/


  • #5
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    Both alive! Thanks for the cheerful thread though :)


  • #6
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    My dad is still alive, my mam died when I was 25.


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  • #7
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    Both are still alive and not even 50 yet :D


  • #8
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Both still with us


  • #9
    Evie90
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭Evie90


    I was 9 when my mam died, 16 when my dad died.


  • #10
    hungergamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭hungergamer


    Both of them are still very much alive!


  • #11
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I lost both mine (within 4 weeks of each other) at 34, but I felt most sorry for my youngest brother who was only 22 at the time.
    Evie90 wrote: »
    I was 9 when my mam died, 16 when my dad died.

    Oh God Evie I'm sorry to read this - that was awful for you! How did you manage after your father died?


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  • #12
    lividduck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭lividduck


    :DThey were dead two years before I was born.:D


  • #13
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Great thread :rolleyes:

    I've still got both my parents thankfully


  • #14
    djk1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭djk1000


    Mums still here, lost dad when I was 29. Anyone lucky enough to have both parents around, NEVER take it for granted.


  • #15
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    24 (dad) and 43 (mum)


  • #16
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,949 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Very strange thread to be honest.

    To answer the question, both are very much alive thankfully. I'd be lost without either of them.


  • #17
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Close this thread it's fuçking weird.


  • #18
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    None thankfully but one of them stopped wanting anything to do with me when I was young, still lived in the same house awkward. My Dad is alive and his parents are but I think his parents will outlive him, he's not been looking after himself and I don't talk to him now and I'm worried he's going to die and I won't be allowed to attend his funeral.
    Gosh this doesn't bare thinking about.


  • #19
    Ellie2008
    Registered Users Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭Ellie2008


    Sorry Mods, I hadn't intended to upset people, please feel free to close or delete.


  • #20
    EdenHazard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭EdenHazard


    Awwwww man, this is one of my biggest fears, thankfully not yet but I know the fickleness of life and its a scary thought that I could be joking and having fun with my parents one night and the next day one of them could be gone. Suppose you just gotta free your mind of these thoughts.


  • #21
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Ellie2008 wrote: »
    Sorry Mods, I hadn't intended to upset people, please feel free to close or delete.
    Maybe if you reworded the opening post to something like "If any of you have lost a parent, what age were you when they died?" It just looks like everyone's lost their parents, the way you've worded it.


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  • #22
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Ellie2008 wrote: »
    Sorry Mods, I hadn't intended to upset people, please feel free to close or delete.

    No one wants to think about their parents dying but it's no harm to talk about it. No matter what age you are the death of a parent will always be hard, everything changes and home is never the same again.


  • #23
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,440 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Both still with us thank God.


  • #24
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Ellie2008 wrote: »
    Sorry Mods, I hadn't intended to upset people, please feel free to close or delete.

    No harm done :)
    A little morbid for AH so we'll leave it at that.


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