Why do people die young?

[Atu457]

I recently lost my mom a few weeks ago. She was in her 50’s. I still have cannot comprehend why she was taken from us so young in life. People at the funeral said she was a “lady” when sympathizing with us. Was it God’s call? or just really bad luck?.

 

[AngelaMarie]

I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my mother 2.5 years ago, and it’s very painful. Even primal. I will be praying for the repose of your mother’s soul, and for peace for your family

Death comes to all, the young, the old, the in-between.

Don’t think of it as your mother was taken from you, but rather that God received your mother.

 

[powerandglory]

I’m sorry for your loss and the pain you must be feeling. Try to find some comfort in knowing she went when God called her. There is no such thing as “bad luck”.
“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.” Matt 25:13

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I am sorry this happened to you.

I am in my 50s. Last year my husband died suddenly from a “cardiac event”. He was 2 years older than me. My best friend from high school also got cancer and died last year. She was 2 months younger than me and left a husband and two teenage kids.

It was simply their time to go. I know it is hard to see why some people are taken at young ages, and I knew people who died at much younger ages than them from some disease or freak accident. Even when we look at the saints, there are saints who died in their teens or even childhood, and other saints who lived to be 80, 90, or 100 and this was in eras without any sort of decent medical care.

One day if we get to Heaven we will understand God’s reasons for when people died. But until then it’s just one of those things we have to accept because we never will really understand. I miss my husband a lot, but some days I think he was spared having to get old and feeble and perhaps suffer from the very bad diseases his parents had in their 80s. And perhaps the Lord wanted me to do something else other than be a wife. When I see the Lord I will be able to ask him then but I suspect it won’t matter so much at that point.

 

[TheLittleLady]

I am so sorry for your loss.

You will likely never know the “why” this side of heaven, but, trust that God allowed even this seemingly unreasonable death.

There is a very good book called “The Tears of God” by Fr Groeschel.

 

[sancte_trinitatis]

So sorry for your loss. Offering up prayers to our Merciful Father for you and your family, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

✞ In the name of the Father,
And of the Son,
And of the Holy Spirit.
Amen

 

[Dan_Defender]

It is not the age at which we die that matters, but how well prepared for death we are. My mother died too and it was her time. God gives and God takes away.

 

[midori]

Hugs. I’m sorry for your loss.

We’re all puzzle pieces, each with our own purpose in life. We have varying amounts of time to finish our work and to be the people in that particular place, in that particular time, that God wants us to be. And sometimes it isn’t so much about a particular accomplishment, as it is about the little things that we do while on that path.

It’s incredibly difficult dealing with people who were taken too soon-- who still have so many things they could accomplish. Young moms taken from their young children are hard. Young fathers taken from their young children are hard. Young children are super-hard.

I’m happy that your mom had the chance to accomplish as much good as she did in the time she had. Pray for the repose of her soul, and pray for your family tree. Do what you need to do to carry on what you would have expected her to have done, for love of her and love of her memory, and do your own individual work as well.

Big hugs.