Estranged friends and communication about sad events

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Summer_Twilight
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31 Dec 2018, 1:14 pm

Hi:
My aunt is currently in a hospice program after suffering two strokes and now in a coma off life support. I felt that since we had a relationship, there are other people who were my friends at one point or another who I connected with my aunt who I fell out with. Anyway, even though I have moved on, I did reach out to three people who did things with my aunt while we were friends. Though I have moved on, I felt it would be unfair to leave them out of the loop.

I reached out to four people
1. Two of them were ex-friends via email and I let them know what happened
2. One was the sister of one ex-friend
3. I spoke to the mother my other ex-friend briefly over the phone to break the news. Her mother is extremely protective of her daughter and was jealous of me being in her daughter's life next to disliking me for being independent and going onto college. Anyway, though I told her what happened she was very cold and didn't seem to want to know how I am doing or anything. I felt like her attitude was "Just tell me and get off," though she was polite. When I did get off, I felt icky.

Any thoughts on this?