I've noticed that when a person dies, people are likely to say "that's your/his/her demographic" or "you/we/she/he is that age." Sure, I get that death is getting closer for people my age (but every single person born is old enough to die), that it's not or shouldn't be a surprise. But still. That's hardly the point. One's feelings are not mitigated or diminished because your loved one was 80 rather than 20. When my dad died, people always asked how old he was. When I said 80, they would almost invariable shrug, Well then, as if his age disqualified my grief. "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."* Dismissing a loss because of the person's age is turning them into a statistic.
* Possibly not said by Stalin though widely attributed to him.