I received some tragic news about one of my cousins

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19. Oh dear I'm sorry for your loss

It's unlikely the cause was nefarious, but your cousin maybe had a stroke or a dizzy spell of some kind. It's hard to understand that an otherwise healthy person can have a sudden death, but it sometimes happens.

I remember my grandfather's funeral, when I was perhaps 30. My grandpa (around 85 or 86) had keeled over from a massive heart attack and he died almost instantly. We were all sad of course, but I'll never forget what his friends said at the funeral. Grandpa's contemporaries mostly in their 80's said, "We're sorry that he's gone, but we envy the way he went."

Sometimes a quick painless death can be a blessing, even though it's hard for the loved ones to let him go.