For me, being on the back nine, I would expect more calls of this nature. With God's blessings, my only hope is that the people I love and care deeply about, can pass through the pearly gates in chronological order.
To mourn the passing of someone who has lived a long and fruitful life, although painful, is nothing like the devastation that fills our entire being when a life has been cut way to short for one reason or another.