It's cool. My cousin was only 52. Perhaps a couple pounds overweight but not Goodrumesque. What made it worse was that his mom was still alive (my aunt had been in poor health for over 5 years). She never got to see him, hold him, say goodbye, nothing. It happened so fast. He didn't know he had it. He stroked out the night before Easter and was taken off life support on the day after. He got those dreaded covid blood clots that I'm sure you've read about. We finally got to give him his funeral mass in October. His mom passed away 17 days later. She seemingly willed herself on long enough to see him given his respectful, proper send off. Not looking for a pity party, but it's been a rough year.
That's sad. 52 is not old - given the increases to the human lifespan, I could almost say that 52 is young. Especially being in shape at 52. Nothing elderly about that. Sounds like your cousin was not necessarily in shape, but not hugely out of shape.
I don't know though...maybe when all is said and done, we'll find that COVID, while not particularly deadly, is slightly worse than the flu, and poses more risk to younger people than the flu. On the flip side, among people 65-80, the flu kills more people as far as I can tell.
So it's kind of odd...COVID is VERY geriatric, in terms of who it targets...but there are some young people who have died, who normally don't die from the normal influenza.
Last question:
Is there ANY chance that your cousin died of COVID due to death certificate fraud, or had an underlying illness he wasn't aware of?
Because just some relatively healthy, slightly overweight 52-year-old...for perspective, in Canada, only 297 Canadians under 60 have died of COVID as of 2020-09-23, with around ~29,700,000 people in that age demographic [rounded up, just to make the numbers easy to calculate].
That means that 99.999% of people under 60 last year did not die of COVID by September 23rd of this year.
That's 1 in 100,000.
I mean...was your cousin really so unhealthy that he would be that one out of 100,000?
It just seems
fishy suspicious to me.
Had your cousin been 72, I would have found it more believable. And I'm not calling you a liar...just wondering if maybe there were more health concerns or underlying issues he may have had. I don't think you would have any reason to lie about your own cousin.