Many people on my mom’s side of the family have died young before their time. Many of them died because of lifestyle choices, addictions and tragedies.
The only people that died in their old age have been my grandparents who lived into their late 80s and my great father that lived to 102.
I had cousins die of AIDS, lung cancer, cirrosis of the liver, alcoholism, complications of organ failure and Alzheimer’s Disease. Many of them because of drinking, smoking, drugs and lifestyle choices. That’s why my family has gotten smaller and smaller because of many people dying young and it scares me because I live a straight edge lifestyle I run from those things and I don’t associate with people like that but to have family into that is a source of shame especially direct family is even worse.