@keksnewman,
I'm a 58 year guy, married with two daughters.
The most recent losses in our family was my mother-in-law in 2001, and my father in 1991. My father's death was very sudden, and unexpected. My mother-in-law had a protracted battle with cancer (brain tumour). She got better, and then relapsed, and after a few months died.
I, myself, am a cancer survivor. I managed to be one of the lucky ones in 1995, and to the present.