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Confessions of a Middle-aged Orphan
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Losing one’s parents in middle age is a very common passage but one that has only recently gotten serious attention.  Conventional wisdom has been that losing our last parent is a very profound experience as it forces us to confront our mortality in new ways.  Those of us who are parents ourselves certainly hope and expect to predecease our children as the normal order of life.  Our parents hoped and expected that to be the course of their lives, as well. So why should it be especially difficult for us to lose our parents when we have expected all our lives to experience these losses?  And why does our own death seem to be closer when our last parent dies?  Does it make a difference that, due to improvements in health care, most of us have had or will… read more

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I have experienced many of the same emotions and feelings; especially as an only child.  The loss of both of my parents, especially of my father, was a profound experience and left me with great waves of emotions.

Posted by Helen Bronstein on 01/18/11 at 06:22 PM

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