I think for normal people it does. For me, I seriously wonder if it is going to be different. Most people, when they lose a parent or two, are already parents and may not have lost their aunts and uncles or cousins yet. That was my mom, for example. My grandpa died in 1989, but my mom was already raising me and still had a couple of uncles/aunts/cousins around. My dad still had some relatives to fall back on. When my mom's grandparents died, her parents were already parents to my mom, etc. They already had gone through the normal course of life when their previous generations passed, so they still had a semblance of stability. I do not have the proper means of family support like my mom and dad did when their loved ones passed. I am pretty much empty, with "nothing" left unless I fake being Muslim in front of any relatives who do pledge support. That is what will kill me
I literally thank God for the two people from church who came to the funeral today but see, they've already got their families in case someone dies. I'm a "deviant." (I don't like to use that term)