Taylor Tomlinson says her mother’s early death fed a long-running fear she would die young

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""Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I think afterward, and I didn't really put it together until I was a little older, but apparently it's a very common fear um when someone has a parent die young, they assume they're going to die at that same age or they're going to die very young as well.""

Taylor Tomlinson says that after her mother died young, she began “preparing” for her own death and later recognised it as a common fear among children bereaved early. She says the anxiety persisted into adulthood and still resurfaces as she nears the age at which her mother died.