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You know what I find interesting? If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name.

Alan Ball

[The couple divorced, the captain agreed to divorce his first wife, and then he and Betty remarried and moved to Canada.] I have two wedding certificates for my parents' marriage, ... They were married twice - by the same registrar in the same register office. The first says that my father is a widower; the second that he is divorced.

Michael Buerk

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

In most instances, the most sound advice to offer a recent widow or widower is to do nothing drastic - and very little is more drastic than selling one's home.

Francis Degen