You never expect it

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Children expect to see their parents die. Its the normal state of the world. What is not expected is for a parent to bury a child. I've mentioned in the past about a young girl who died at 16 of cancer. Her mother is NOT handling it well. She's put all of her daughter's stuff in her room and leaves it like a memorial to her child. Nobody is allowed to go in and take anything from the room, only she goes in to clean it. This is why people these days don't take well when a son or daughter goes off to war and is killed. The thing is, that even 150 yrs ago, more children died before they were 1 than then any single age after. There was a time when children were baptized but not named until they were sure they were going to live. Still, in this day and age, we don't expect to see our children die before we do. So, I really feel for my uncle. Of course, he saw his parents die, but both were in their 60's, one of a stroke and the other of cancer. Then his wife died, of a stroke. Then his son died, of cancer. Now his younger sister has died, of complications of strokes. He's now in his late 80's and I know he didn't expect to survive his whole family. You never know, tho, do you. Death is never really expected but it comes none the less. Are you ready? I know I'm not.