re: #185 Barefoot Grin

My dad didn’t talk much about his own dad unless asked, though I know he respected and loved him. When I asked how granddad died (it was before I was born) he said, “he was carrying a wet carpet up from the basement and had a heart attack,” and then added “failed that stress test.”

my people (both Irish and the German/Slovak/Austrian Empire sides) generally die of #1: heart attacks; #2: alcoholism; #3: strokes/cerebral hemorrhages.

Go further back to my great-grands and further back, and then you see things like liver cancer for my great-great-grandma in 1909 (probably due to a love of wine since she came from the wine region of Germany); tuberculosis and other lung diseases (several Irish great-grand uncles died of that in Buffalo at the turn of the century, they were all motormen), other stuff I’m still uncovering.