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So I should link to this post on my folk's blog. (Partly because yours truly did the first draft of it - but everyone looked at it before posting, of course). I'm tired - interrupted sleep most nights to help out. But this is nothing - I've been here a week; S, and W and C having been doing it for longer...

Staying down here was definitely the right decision.

It's weird. I always thought that my folks and their generation would all die in their 70's, or 80's; maybe the occasional 90 year old - this would be in 20 years time or something. Not now. There's so much to do in life. So many experiences to do, people to meet, places to see, etc, etc. It seems to be a waste that you can't have ~ 80 + years doing that. The standard answer is, of course: "yup, you may not live for as long as you like; so you need to make the most of each moment" or something like that. But that is kind of [forgotten the word - it means excuse - sort of - jib or jip or something], because we should all have the option for living a long time. Any outcome less (unless due to being stupid - drunk driving for example) is stupid and crap and wrong.

Anyhow, back from the rant:
It's the first (significant) exposure I've had to a dying person. The only other people are my grandparents (paternal), and grandpa (maternal), although all of these were a while ago (last was ~10 years ago, or so, I think). However, in this case we've got 7 or so out of 13 imminent signs (plus a few bonus issues due to the nature of the illness and complications)...