Sometimes it's hard not to think the universe is in a snit.

[jbsegal]

I can name 4 people on my friends list right now with dead, dying, or critically ill relatives.

Gah. I'd really like to not see this as a trend, but it's hard.

{sigh}

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[bluepapercup]

:( :( :(

You can make that 5 people. I got a call from my mom last night saying my sister, who's been ill for a long time is doing the worst she's ever been and they're really worried.

It can all just stop now, y'know???

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Yup. I do. *HUG*HUG*

[bluepapercup]

Thanks, JB.

*BIG HUG*

[mytheria.livejournal.com]

you can add 1 more.
My brother-in-law is in the ICU and is having a chest tube placed in the next hour to try to get some of the fluid out before he has emergency coronary surgery. And this is only 4 months aftr my mother's death.

[bluepapercup]

:/

I'm thinking hopeful thoughts for your family and mine.

[mytheria.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Good news is that he's out of surgery and might be home on Thursday.

Know there are comforting thoughts for you and your family.

[bluepapercup]

Thank you!

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Unfortunately, dying and death are a natural part of life. It can really suck sometimes, but keep reminding yourself that there is a lot of good to life as well.

I know my circle of caring/loving friends/chosen family is what keeps me going in the darkest moments.

*HUGS*

[goddessfarmer.livejournal.com]

First: what she said. Second, as we get older, we are going to be seeing more and more of this. Yes, my mother passed at what is perhaps thought of as a early age now (62) last year, but the time will come for all of us eventually. The living must keep living and supporting each other. The light does not go out of the world, it just shifts around. Try counting the number of friends who have gotten married, or had offspring. ::hugs::

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Both T and J say Wisdom here.

(and J, I lost my dad at age 52. I thought it was young at the time, since I'd specialised in geriatrics. But the older I and my friends get, the younger he gets.)

[jostajam.livejournal.com]

Don't be too hard on the universe. Pa went peacefully with most of his kids by his side. The universe owed him a peaceful trip out and it actually delivered.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Ditto. My uncle Joe was in his mid-nineties and had lived a long and full life. He had dementia and had lost his wife of over 60 years a few months ago, which precipitated his having to move to a nursing home. His passing was a blessing and there were those who wondered what took so long.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Alas, we're getting to the age where more and more parents/frieds/siblings will be dieing, and children/niblings/grandchildren will be birthing. Such be the cycle of life.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

You start talking about the universe being in a snit, and twenty minutes later there's an earthquake in LA. Coincidence? ...Probably. :)

*hugs*

[persis.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have at least that many on my flist too... for me it goes in cycles.

It makes me realize that I really do want to live life to the fullest.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

I ran out of relatives several years ago.

[avram]

Well, we are getting older. If you're in your forties, your parents are probably in their sixties or seventies, and if your grandparents are still alive, they're probably over eighty.

It was shocking to me when I had friends die in their twenties and thirties. Relatives in their eighties and nineties being sick or dying, well, that's sad, but not surprising.

[redbird]

As far as I know, none of my relatives are seriously ill. (This is, I realize, small comfort.)

[truthspeaker.livejournal.com]

It does seem to go in cycles, and there was a cycle of that just in March. :-(