I had my dad until he was 82. My three daughters' father died at 62. He was a mostly absent dad, but he was still their dad. This could help me understand their kind of grief better. It's been six years, and one daughter maintains a shrine to him in her living room. She also blames me for his death because I would have cared for him had we stayed married. Talk about mental instability. She is over the top with that accusation. But it must make sense to her.