How many of your grandparents are alive?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Currently, three:

Mother's Mother
Father's Mother
Mother's Father

My Father's Step-Father is still alive, but I'm only going biologically here.

[Mr. Morden]

Zero.  None of them lived long enough to see their 83rd birthday, and in fact both grandmothers died before I was born.

I did have a great grandmother who lived well into her 90s, but she died when I was about 10.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Two. One from each parent, each the opposite gender of the parent (mother's father and father's mother)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Paternal Grandfather: 1914-1998.
Paternal Grandmother: 1925-2013.
Maternal Grandfather: 1939-2008.
Maternal Grandmother: 1942-.

My maternal grandmother and I are extremely close, and her age is finally starting to catch up with her. She had a heart attack scare (turned out not to have been a heart attack) on Christmas Day last year, but otherwise is still going strong. I'm sure she'll be around for another ten years at the very least. She's the reason I became interested in politics to begin with.

[ElectionsGuy]

Three, my paternal grandmother died 4 years ago from cancer.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Materal grandmother died in 1994 from a horrible form of arthritis.
Materal grandfather died in 1997, hanging himself while cancer stricken.  (never met him)
Paternal grandfather died in 2012 from what seems to be natural causes at age 80. 

My paternal grandmother is still living happily in Arizona. 

[J-Mann]

Only one. My paternal grandfather died in 1971; paternal grandmother in 2006.

We just lost my maternal grandfather in June at age 89; my maternal grandmother is still going strong.

[Deus Naturae]

My paternal grandmother died of cancer in 2009. The rest are still alive, including my dad's stepmother.

[Vosem]

Both of my grandmothers are alive. Both of my grandfathers are dead.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Maternal grandfather (George), 1930-2005
Maternal grandmother (Joyce), 1931-
Paternal grandfather (Roger), 1938-
Paternal grandmother (Eve), 1939-

[Del Tachi]

All four!  With the eldest being 72, the youngest 64

[Frodo]

They're all dead. 

[MadmanMotley]

All four!  With the eldest being 72, the youngest 64

My dad is older than your youngest grandparent...

[Miles]

All except my paternal grandfather, who died 8 years before I was born.

[retromike22]

Paternal Grandfather: 1924-
Paternal Grandmother: 1924-
Maternal Grandfather: 1906-1989
Maternal Grandmother: 1908-1978

[MaxQue]

One, but I also have a great-grandmother alive, too.

[dead0man]

0 and it's been that way since the 90s.  I miss Papa Skinny.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Paternal grandfather: 1913-1982 (heart attack - 69)
Paternal grandmother: 1921-2011 (dementia-related pneumonia - 90)
Maternal grandfather: 1929-
Maternal grandmother: 1930-
Average age: 79.5

Let's extend for fun
Paternal grandfather's father: 1889-1922 (drowning - 32)
Paternal grandfather's mother: 1892-1964 (heart attack -72)
Paternal grandmother's father: 1873-1949 (stroke - 76)
Paternal grandmother's mother: 1876-1947 (heart attack - 71)
Average: 62.8


Maternal grandfather's father: 1890-1966 (medical negligence - 76)
Maternal grandfather's mother: 1892-1988 (pneumonia - 96)
Maternal grandmother's father: 1895-1964 (heart attack - 69)
Maternal grandmother's mother: 1894-1990 (pneumonia - 96)
Average: 83.3

[Adam Griffin]

0. Both of my grandfathers were dead before I was born; my grandmothers died in 1999 and 2008 at ages 75 and 83.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

4/5 - my maternal grandfather died in 2007, but he and my grandmother had been divorced by decades and I never met him. Her second husband is still alive and kicking.

[Modernity has failed us]

Three. My paternal grandfather passed away five months before I was born, and I was named after him.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Two (maternal grandma and paternal grandpa)

I never knew my maternal grandpa, who died a few years before I was born. My paternal grandma passed away in 2009, shortly after I joined the forum.


Maternal grandma: 1931-present
Maternal grandpa: 1933-1984

Paternal grandma: 1935-2009
Paternal grandpa: 1934-present

[TNF]

Paternal, Maternal, Step-Paternal, and Step-Maternal are all still around.

I also still have my Paternal Great Grandmother and Maternal Great Grandmother. My Paternal Great Grandfather died in the late 1990s and my Maternal Great Grandfather died in 2013.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

One.  I never met my father or anyone in his family, and my maternal grandfather was dead before I was born.

[anvi]

Three of mine had died by the time I was born and the last one when I was 2.  My grandparents, however, were all born in the 19th century.