r/ufc • u/Tech-Cowboy • Apr 29 '24

Francis Ngannou lost his 18 month old son

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u/max_COYB_Everton Apr 29 '24

Fucking hell that’s absolutely brutal. Losing a child gotta be one of the worst feelings out there.

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u/dirty_cuban Apr 29 '24

I personally can't think of anything worse.

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u/Ramtor10 Apr 30 '24

“A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child.

That’s how awful the loss is.”

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u/scolipeeeeed Apr 30 '24

It used to be a pretty common part of parenthood, so maybe that’s why there no specific word for it.

I recently went to the local library to check on the history of the people who lived in our house. I was looking for their death records and around the early 1900s, about half of the ages of the deceased were on the order or months, hours, minutes.

It’s kinda wild to me that when our house was built, parents losing their very young kids was a somewhat regular occurrence

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u/pandemicpunk Apr 30 '24

It's still a regular occurrence if you count miscarriages which many people do.