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And the way I've always really looked at it (or at least tried to), it's not a bad thing that my mother died. For her, at least. For the rest of the world, it's shit, because she was a genuinely good person. She had been sick for a long time, and never did anything to deserve the amount of pain she had to endure. Her pain is gone. She got to live to see four grandchildren born and her baby boy go off to college. She left us on a good note.