Jumping the Gun

God, I feel surrounded by death right now.  The matriarch's brother-in-law died last week; I found out unexpectedly, yesterday.  It is kind of odd because we thought he was already dead.  Not so, but is now.  So, maybe the sister-in-law is not doomed to die...what an odd way of thinking.  There is no charity of spirit today.  the matriarch got up, sat at the table to wait for her breakfast, then went upstairs to eat potato chips.  She talked about her sister-in-law and how she would have no one to visit anymore.  Honestly, she made it sound as if she was confined here, imprisoned in a jail.  And, she had absolutely no sympathy for her sister-in-law who leaves no one behind, her child is already dead and her husband--well, I don't quite that situation.  But the matriarch talked as if she was being deprived rather than her sister-in-law's reality.  I think this kind of selfishness is character not age.