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My aunt died unexpectedly Monday night (in Edinburgh), to the extent that the death of someone with a diagnosis of terminal metastatic cancer is unexpected. But since she'd been given 6-12 months, and died in 3 weeks, unexpected. The women in my family are all about the practicality and no fuss, including the arrangements of their deaths. I wasn't especially close to my aunt, but she was a person I understood deeply - I am not so dissimilar - and she was the best communicator of her generation. Her death leaves a family gap that I imagine I will in part fill. I'm glad she held off her own death until after my grandmother's. I'm deeply sad for her husband.