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Reflections on the Death of My Mother

Alex18 Wrote: Sep 30, 2009 10:56 AM

What a wonderful tribute to a life well-lived. To find happiness in yourself is rare and even rarer is it to find happiness in the presence of someone whose life you share.
In some ways we all know people like Hilda Prager and wish there were more like her.
Dennis, you have toasted her, her life, her marriage, her motherhood and her presence in this world as a happy and meaningful part of it! That is one aspect of the everlasting life we strive to have.

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Reflections on the Death of My Mother

My mother, Hilda Prager, died 10 days ago.

Because she has consumed my thoughts since then, I thought I would share some of them with my readers.

1. On the age a parent dies

One of the first things most people ask when a person loses a parent is how old he or she was. This is entirely normal, yet it demands explanation. It is entirely normal because people regard the death of a 90-year-old parent quite differently from that of, let us say, a 70-year-old, let alone someone younger than that.