[Sylvanfan]

Maybe this makes me seem cold, but he more experience you have with it, the more comfortable, or accepting of it I think you'll become. Within about a 5 year stretch I had both of my grand parents, my best friend from highschool, an aunt, and my father pass away in that order. Since my Dad's passing two years ago, I've had another Aunt and an Uncle move on as well. Previous to that I had only dealt with 2 uncles as people who were close to me passing away. As this happens more and more, I have more previous experiences to draw upon, and as of right now I know what life is like without one of my parents who I was close with...and you know what...it's not unliveable at all. In fact compare my situation to countless other people and I got a pretty good deal in that I got to know my Dad for 30 years. So maybe always look at the good parts of the situation as opposed to dreading the bad parts, maybe it will make you feel better? In your case you parents got to see your marriage, their grand child and a lot of other great things...I'd say thats pretty good and you can rest easy knowing that.

As others say, in order to have life, you need to have death to balance it out. So what can you control? The life you live right now, and make the most of it, and be able to step back and appreciate and enjoy it on occasion. The rest you only have marginal control over (and even that has a lot of chance involved still), so really don't worry about things that are out of your control, or you will drive yourself nuts.