The Obamas really look broken up over Granny’s death.
relieved is more like it now that she can’t spill the beans about his birth....
When I went to the funeral of my grandmother or other elderly relatives who had been sick a long time, I wasn’t broken with grief either. Sad, yes, more about the decline and cruelty of old age than about the release. I was still happy to see other family members and friends, and we even laughed sometimes talking over our memories.
Is it nothing but sackcloth and ashes and tears and keening and rending of garments at the funerals you go to?