Breaking - Eunice Kennedy Shriver is dying

She is surrounded by her family in Cape Cod.

is she that bad off?

especially since she's been ill for a long time

her family

http://wbztv.com/local/Euince.Kennedy.Shriver.2.1119470.html
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 88-year-old sister of President John F. Kennedy, is in critical condition at a Massachusetts hospital.

Family spokesman Stephen Rivers said Friday Shriver is surrounded by her family at Cape Cod Hospital. He says her husband, children and all her grandchildren are at her side.

Shriver is also the sister of Sen. Edward Kennedy and the mother-in-law of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. She is responsible for founding the Special Olympics and has championed the rights of the mentally retarded.

:hug: to her family

My boo-boo. Pat and Jean are still living.

Aug 7, 2009 12:30 pm US/Pacific
JFK Sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver Critical
Family Spokesman: Surrounded By Family At Mass. Hospital
Founder Of Special Olympics Is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mother-In-Law

BOSTON (CBS) ―
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 88-year-old sister of President John F. Kennedy, who founded the Special Olympics and championed the rights of the mentally retarded, is in critical condition at a Massachusetts hospital.

Family spokesman Stephen Rivers said Friday that the 88-year-old sister of President John F. Kennedy is surrounded by her family at Cape Cod Hospital. He says her husband, children and all her grandchildren are at her side.

Shriver is also the sister of Sen. Edward Kennedy and the mother-in-law of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It was no immediately clear what ailment, if any, was affecting her. It was also not immediate clear how long Shriver has been hospitalized.

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Thoughts and prayers with the family.

It feels like my parents' generation are all going much faster than I can let them go.

:(

:hug:

I lost both of my parents within the past couple of years. Grandparents are gone. It is a strange feeling that is taking me a while to get used to.

Everyone has to go through it. I'm not going to excel at this. :(

and my dad died 3 years ago.

I think that weird feeling is the knowledge that we're the grownups now, there's nobody left to go to for help.

In your 30's & 40's, it's people your parents know, and after that, it's people YOU know..your peers.

My son is the exception to this..

By the time he was 25, SEVEN of his friends had died..all in accidents.(none involved drinking done by the ones killed) 4 died in one accident.:(

I remember when the first of our friends died in an accident decades ago.
His name was Danny and he crashed on his bike. Elton John's Daniel was released a few months before - we cried every time we heard that song.

one died a few weeks after his wife gave birth to his son.

One was a motorcycle accident.. the others were car accidents.

Still it's a nice feeling watching the 20 year olds taking charge of family situations. It's as if they know that they move up a level as the oldest generation passes on.

I remember mom telling my brother that her responsibility was not to make him love her, but to ensure that he could survive and thrive as a responsible adult. She added that if he loved her that was the bonus.

:hug: for your aunt

We only have one aunt left on my side and hubby's mom on his. She's 84 now and it's painful to watch how frail she is these days.

:hug: It's a tough time watching the people of the generation before you go. We are never ready.

I got to meet her back in 1968. Lovely lady.

Peace to the Kennedys

:(

who is suffering form Alzheimer's. I think that he is in California.