How many of your grandparents are still alive?

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Their ages? Yours?

As for me I've still got both grandmas, and hopefully I'll still have them for a few more years: 86 and 95.

Both grandfathers died at age 67.

I'm 28.

A 77 year old grandfather still alive, and 76 year old grandmother on one side, and an 82 year old grandmother the other side.

I'm 33.

Lucky to have them.

Edit: if I reach 50 and they're still alive, they'll be younger than yours are now, crazy thought

I'm 36 and have a grandmother pushing 100 who is still going strong. Good genes on that side of the family, her mother lived to 97.

I knew my grandfather on the other side and he lived into his 80's but my other 2 grandparents passed relatively young before I was born.

No grandparents left a live, and my daughter is experiencing her first loss now with the death of her nanny this weekend (my mother in law).

We're just going through all the funeral arrangements now, visiting/viewings etc and burial tomorrow.

Having been through it with all my grandparents it feeling strange now bringing my daughter through her first loss.

My last grandparent died over 20 years ago. My daughter was a toddler at the time and great granny dying really bothered her. It was charming to see that she had some echo of the love I had for that woman. I loved that Granny the most, she has had a powerful psychological influence on my life. She was a strong rural woman who read voraciously and widely, could slaughter animals when the time came, smoked hard tobacco, knew endlessly surprising things, held loud contrarian opinions on everything especially politics and was something of a mystic. I dreamed of her last night.
Both my grandads died fairly young, drank themselves determinedly to death, and in the process caused much hurt to those around them. It's why I have never bothered with the drink.

None.

Maternal grandmother died the month before I was born.

Paternal grandfather died when I was 7.

Paternal grandmother when I was 15.

Paternal grandfather when I was 20.

I was 40 this year.

The paternal GF hit me hardest. He lived with us for the last few years of his life and we were quite close. He smoked like a hure, liked a pint, had a voracious appetite for books and adored cheesy action movies, we had alot of laughs together.

I'm lucky that both my parents are still alive and are currently healthy. I have two kids myself and the oldest is 2 and a half and he absolutely ADORES my dad. My folks have a farm so between tractors, machinery and animals its like Christmas for him every time we visit, my dad to be fair to him is wonderful with both kids aswell, considering he is your typical non emotional, country reared Irishman its lovely to see the two of them go off hand in hand across the fields. Hopefully they will be with us for many years to come as grandparents are massively important for kids, I think I've only really begun to truly appreciate that since my pair came along.