Orphaned Adults: Life After Both Parents Have Died Part 1 - Considerations 

God is with u))

I lost my father when I was 10 years old and my mom passed away on June 7th this year. Life seems pointless to me now. But I promised to my mom that I will fight on. I'm 29 now.

@@mihanich i lost my dad when I was 20 and I just lost my mom 3 weeks ago and I'm 33 now. Life seems so worthless to me now also😞 I hope I don't always feel like this man or its going to be a long miserable life

I hope you're doing okay. Lost my Mom at 22 in 07 and just lost Dad :"( . I don't think people understand it til they go through it.

I lost both of my parents in 2021, just 11 days apart it is so unexpected and heartbreaking...

Brian Wetzel hi Brian how are you? May I communicate with you? I'm in similar situation.

+RosemarysDaughter82 I can relate rosemary my parents married in their 40's so I knew from a young age that I'd lose my parents sooner then most kids. great anxiety every time the phone rang in my 30's my mom died in febuary 24th 2015. my dad refused to come back to America with me so I promised to return for summer and left him in the care of a cousin. He got sick with a catheter and they took him off the heart meds for 2 months. I worried about that. I went to Greece with plans to open an artey for him since hes off the blood thinner due to prostate problems. On the 4th morning he passed on july 30th. I have guilt that I waited too long. he was 88 but he wanted to live a few more years. he had some alzheimers but he was strong. 4 months apart...........I feel your loss.

I understand the pain. My father past when I was 2 years old and my mother passed away when I was 17. It’s been a struggle to be an adult in this world, especially being an orphan. No one is truly ready to loose their parents. Any loved one for that matter. I’ve just learned to still love my parents even with them not being here physically. The pain lingers but becomes more manageable as years go by.

Im so sorry my heart goes out to you i wish you the best

@@CHAKASHAKA my parents also didn't have me until their mid 40s so I also knew I wasn't going to have my parents in my life for too long. I'm a 33 year old orphan now, I'm almost surprised my mom made it until I was in my 30s so I guess I should be grateful for that.

I’m so sorry. I’ll keep you in my prayers . Please keep me in yours. It’s such a lonely feeling isn’t it? I get so homesick for my childhood. I just want to go back in time and it be the way it was home with my parents and siblings. Hugs and prayers ❤️

yeah i know how you feel im 21 and just lost both my parents sucks.

foxtrot yankee i am so sorry for your loss😢😢😢 I hope you have other family members to lean on and be there for you!

@@michellelemar1995 thank you and i hope you feel better as well. 😊

@@michellelemar1995 unfortunately the family that i do have i either never met or im not close to. so i know that alone feeling it takes time to feel better i lost my mom at 15 and then now my dad.

foxtrot yankee I am so sorry, you are still so young maybe you can reach out to them and try to become closer? I have 2 Aunts that i have never meet and am not close to either. They live in different states. They are my moms sisters and am thinking of reaching out to them but feels wierd. I am in my early 50s and it seems strange at my age. I have a Aunt on my dads side that i knew as a kid but my older brother i think has maybe turned her and my other Aunts against me as he has had contact with them and has kept contact as he is a truck driver and has visited them though the years and has done nothing to get us together as a family. Just his own needs. Dosnt even tell me about them. He has ripped me off when my dad died as his executor of his will and just did the same thing to me when my mom died. So im sure he hasn't anything good to say. So i think im just going to go my own way. I hope you try to have some contact. I am praying for you, just know you matter, your feelings matter, and you always have your parents in your heart!!

I’m an only child, I lost my dad at 90 and mum at 88. I was in my early 50s. I miss them, but with them being so old, and having them around for so long, makes me feel grateful. I’m autistic and have adhd. I have terrific trustees and family friends who look after me and home helps. They are marvellous people. I’ve lost people around my age and not much older than myself and the acceptance has been nowhere near as good. I realise that I could have had it a lot worse.

With no parents, you are God's child. With His tender mercies and loving kindness. He comforts you with peace that surpasses all understanding. Please read the Bible and pray for understanding and to be filled with God's love. May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob comfort you and give you peace.

@@tonimt1712 I consume myself with his word and only surround myself with Godly people. Thank you

It must have happened for a reason. I lost both my parents within 6 months of each other, and I see meaning in it. Only God knows those answers. He knows the patterns of our lives and the reasons behind life events. To lean on Him is the only way forward, like me, I do.

Thank you for your interview. I just found it. My mother just died last month after a brief cancer battle. She was 85. My father died back in 2006 at 82. I'm an only child with no family of my own. Because of COVID-19 I was my mother's sole caregiver (with some hired help). Although my mother's side of the family is large, no one else lives in the immediate area. The experience left me very sad and at times resentful with the burden completely falling on me and my long distant relatives wanting to tell me what to do from afar because of course they know so much better. I have now moved back into the family home. I at least have my mom's good friends and my friends as a support network. I know I will eventually get through this, but for now it's hard when you're surrounded by so many memories.

Anthony Arcanum Sanctum Regnum .i am so sorry for your loss. As i am trying to deal with this at this point in my life i have started a journal to write down every memory as we all know we may not even remember what we had for dinner the night b4. Try to remember feom the time you were born till this moment and put it in what i now call my family journal. So when we cant see there face or hear there voices, we can look back through this and never forget who we are and where we came from. Next thing to do is make your own family, and if its not kids, then friends, and keep them close as this will now be are family! God bless you and im praying for you.

God is with u)))

You should NEVER SPEAK DEATH OVER YOURSELF! IF YOU ARE HERE GOD HAS A PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE! FIND IT!!!!

Wait a minute honey you are here for a reason you don't plan your death or birth only God . Give your life to Jesus and put your faith and trust in him and LEAN NOT UNTO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING! AND CLAIM YOUR PROSPEROUS FUTURE AS HIS WORD PROMISES YOU!!! I SPEAK LIFE OVER YOU! AN ABUNDANT LIFE! IN JESUS NAME AMEN!

Absolutely - that is a terrible way of looking at things, u must have friends. You are here for a reason, and are a spiritual being made by God. Reach out brother, if u don’t u won’t see your true purpose in life. U had your parents till u were a mature adult, like myself. Focus on that love and all those memories. ‘The Lord giveth ... the Lord take the away’, I have a brilliant church family that I can call on at anytime. They assure me I’m so loved. Plus family friends.