to tell the truth, it's hard to be completely sad about letting someone go who would be better off out of misery.  I can get where you're coming from.  However, if she was healthy and she died, different story.

It's fine not being sad in this situation.  I personally would be a bit glad that she was on her way to a better place.

Some people tend to take time to react to certain things, especially extreme ones. I am one of them. When my other grandmother died a few years ago, at first it seemed like I wasn't sad, but then a few days latter I started being sad. It's not because the person didn't care, it's because it sometimes takes a while to realize everything that happened. Sometimes it seems that the shock is so big that it does the opposite effect at first.

However, in some cases, if the person is really suffering, just that will make us sad, and when the person dies, we will actually be happy for the person, as she is no longer suffering. It depends of people, really.

Yeah that can happen too when you don't see them much, or if they did a lot of bad stuff to you or your parents before.

Ok so your parents are from italy? Did you come to birth there too? I also wonder if papatino means grandfather or father?

As A Christian, when someone dies that I know is going to go to heaven (well, that I'm pretty sure will since we can't really know this side of heaven) I'm sad that they left, but I am happier to know they are with Christ now.

Someone in my family died that I cared about, and didn't even go see while she was sick.  I was only really sad during the funeral, but before and after, it wasn't incredibly sad for me.