How old were you when your parents died

I was 3 when my Mum died and 33 when my Dad died. I don't like the number 3.
When I was nursing deaths on the ward always came in 3s.

I’m not worried Baggs. I just think it’s a bit nosey.

57 when mum passed and i lost my best friend that day. She was 21 years older than me and as i got older she was my truest friend i could tell her anything and everything. Dad sadly he died aged 56 and i was 35.

I'm wondering to what damaging purpose that someone (or some organisation) knowing at what age a bunch of people were when their parents died could possibly be used for. Since I can't think of anything harmful for which such anonymous knowledge could be used, I don't understand the worry one or two posters have expressed. Happy to be informed of what the specific worries are if anyone cares to enlighten me.

Yes, but for whom? And why? We don't know

I don't think this is how the ONS collect its information.

A journalist fishing maybe, @janeainsworth?

Or maybe a sociology student?

I don't think the motivation, whatever it is, is necessarily nefarious. One could regard it in the same light as census questions. Numerical statistics that this thread's question asks for can be useful.

I'm sorry to hear your parents died when you were so young Flexiblefriend it must have been very difficult for you.

I was 54 when my father died. I’m 70 now and my mother is still alive at 99. I always worried about how my children would cope with the death of grand parents but they were grown up before the first one died.

44 when my mother died, but she suffered from desperate depression for the last 20 years of her life, and Parkinson's and dementia triggered by the ECT and drugs for depression, so I 'lost' her long before.

52 when my father died, so glad he had some years to do what he wanted to do after caring for my mother for so long.

My father died 6 months before I was born, he was in the RAF in WW2. He was only 22. My mother died when I was 61, she was 85.

My first little girl died aged 7 weeeks,and dad died 8 weeks after aged 62,I was 25.
My second daughter died aged 23,mum died 4 years after aged 79,I was 56.

14 when mum died aged 48 after battling leukemia for 2 years and dad died 2 years later when I was 16. Life changed quite a bit and not according to plans but I honestly think it made me stronger and very resilient. I have great memories of them both.

59 when mum died and 63 when dad died

Quite, Harrigran. Not to mention the thread about hearing voices and the thread about hearing knocking at the door

I was 16 when my father died and 30 when my Mum died. They were older parents though.

This is a thread I would not contribute to, added to the other about when you had your children the OP is gathering a lot of data.

35 when dad died and 47 when mom died. I was close to my dad. I didn’t know mom that well, but can remember some things I really don’t like remembering about her.

I was 51 when my mum died at 80 and 62 when my dad died at 89.

I was so fortunate to have my Mum at my 70th birthday. She was in good form but took ill and died a few months later.

I was 53 when my mother dies, she was 85 and 64 when DF died. He was 92.

I'm 70. Still got Mum who is 95. She drives me mad. But I'll miss her when she's gone I'm sure. My wonderful Gran, who I adored, died when I was 28. I miss her every day.

I was three when my mam died my dad did Remarry and he died when I was 39 aged 73.

A journalist fishing maybe, @janeainsworth?

I was 36 when my Mum died - I'm now 60.

My Dad died when I was almost 40

My mum died when I was 23, she was 46. I last saw her as she waved me and my baby son off at lime street station. I always think I was lucky in a way because I was the only one of five children who said goodbye to her. She’d been very ill for all of my childhood but we were shielded from the seriousness of her illness. I realise now how much the underlying tension in the house affect us all. I think that is making me over sensitive to my DiL terminal illness and the affects on my grandchildren. I feel as f history is repeating itself. My dad died a week following my 60th he was in his mid 80’s I wish I’d been nicer to him. I think we in part blamed him for my mothers early death. He was fairly selfish and a bit useless.