But when more than half of them are dead, the others just sort of split apart and die.
Two prominent editors in the fiction department died a month apart in 1939.
Last month an era in American literary history came to an end when two important figures died just one day apart.
A young man's account of raising his 8-year-old brother after their parents died just weeks apart.
She got the idea for that recently, when her parents died from cancer months apart.
The two died only a few days apart.
She was orphaned by age fifteen after her mother and father died approximately six years apart.
They died only 27 days apart, yet in two different years and two different Presidential terms.
Her mother and father died four months apart due to weight-related issues when Kim was 15 years old.
Our fathers had been friends before they'd died a week apart under suspicious circumstances.