Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I friend of mine had to rush to her mother's side for an emergency.  She's feeling full force the reversal that an aging parent causes.  My parents were younger than I am now when they died, and my mother's heart attack was out of the blue and instantly fatal, and then months later my father's cancer was so advanced when they found it so he lived only seven weeks.  He was almost eight years younger than I am now.  I miss them still, but really was involved in caretaking for only the seven weeks my father lived, and he had a person who came in and helped.  So I wish my parents were still around, but would find it agonizing to be a witness to their suffering.  Mine both were sharp as tacks until they died.  They looked darned good as well.  So I am sympathetic to friends in the position of aging themselves while taking care of parents deteriorating and needing care and involvement.  I can only imagine the inevitable heart squeeze.