A tragic accident can lead to overwhelming grief for families.

Evidence

And one Christmastide twin six-year-olds fell through the ice on the river that divides this town. It ran through their backyard and no one knows if they went in together or one tried to save the other. But the first of the brothers was found the same day and the next one was found two days later, bobbed up downstream after the firemen broke up the ice by the dam. We put them in the one casket with two pillows, foot to foot—identical in their new Oshkosh B’Gosh jeans and plaid shirts their mother had mail-ordered from Sears for Christmas. Their father, a young man then, aged overnight and died within five years of nothing so much as sorrow. Their mother got cancer and died after that of grief metastasized. The only one left, the twins’ older brother, who must be nearing thirty now, is long gone from this place. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 196

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 196
• XREF: connects to: Grieving is a significant aspect of love and relationships. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 117; A seemingly innocent act can lead to devastating consequences. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 204; Extreme misfortune can have cascading negative effects on families. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 21 (+1 more)

Library Connections

• Extreme misfortune can have cascading negative effects on families. #expands (0.85) — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 21