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Much is made of the whole 'you'll get old and die and I won't thing' for vampire/mortal relationships. I get the social disadvantage, regular folks are going to start thinking your pairing is increasingly odd. But the people you love dying before you do thing? As far as I can tell it happens to everyone who reaches a certain age. You get older, start attending more funerals than weddings.

My great-grandmother has lost everyone from the previous generation and before. Everyone that younger folks tend to think of as their family. Mother, father, aunts, uncles, grandparents. She has lost most people from her own generation, her siblings and cousins, her husband of many decades. It would not be outside the realm of possibility for her to outlive at least one of her children. I can only assume that an aging body is not a comfort to her in those trials. Further, vampires die all the time, they just don't age. They're not exactly a safe repository for one's heart.