Trying to Turn Obituaries' Focus to the #Survivors & #Predecessors

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Your family "survives" you (i.e. you are "survived by" them in the obituary) or "predeceases" you ("predeceased by").
The word "Survivors" #Survive #Survived #Survivor #Surviving #Survivors #Survivalist# is built on ancient words that mean "Over, Beyond (Super-) + to Live."
The word "Predecessors" #Predecease #Predecessor# is built on ancient words that mean "|Before (Pre-) + to |Go Away (|Retiring Official, |Decease)." 
    You might be survived- or predeceased by
  • a Spouse
  • a Child
  • a Sibling
  • a Parent
  • and that brings up 'degrees of relation'
    • In-laws (relatives related to you by their marriage to your actual relatives)
    • Step-relatives (also added by marriage, but they are ... usually are a replacement for your relative's previous spouse (Hmm ... If I have a cousin who gets-married and then -divorced and then -remarried, is my new cousin-in-law actually my step-cousin-in-law? I think about that because of ...
    • Removed cousins ('cousins once-removed' being "my cousins' children or my parents' cousins ... 'removed' the number of generations-different we are (from the non-removed cousins we're related to) ...

      (... I have a few of those once-removed the past marriage of a cousin who's getting remarried. My new cousin-in-law will be their step-mother.... I guess it's up to them—if they call her 'step-mom,' she'll be my 'step-cousin; if they call her 'mom,' she'll be my 'cousin.')
    • Second- & Third cousins (figured out all the way to "Fifth cousins" in the diagram (from 1987) below) are so-named based on 'the grandparent the non-removed cousins share'—all my first cousins have the same grand-parents, second cousins have the same great-grandparents, third cousins the same great-great-grandparents, Fourth cousins the same Third Great-grandparents, Fifth cousins the same Fourth Great-grandparents, etc.)
    • that means that you can 'validly' say that your Close Friends, Close Colleagues–and even your close Enemies or Rivals–really-really are your blood-related cousins (although it takes a little of the chutzpah out of 'becoming blood-brothers or -sisters through touching breaks in each other's skin')
From there, it might be fun sometime to figure out if You're Your Own Grampa, but the idea that probably stands out is 'how we're all cousins' (through King Solomon and/or King David and/or Moses and/or Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, Abraham and/or Adam & Eve–well, an Adam & (possibly not even alive at the same time) an Eve–and/or one of the many-many ancients) ... showing you that I was raised Christian in the Western Hemisphere :-P

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