Back in April of 2020, my Grandfather passed away due to complications with COPD. He had always been good to my brother and I, despite visits being infrequent. The problem is that though he was good to us, he was horrible to literally everyone else. His wife divorced him because he was a drunkard and smoked 6 packs of cigarettes a day, (<— likely what killed him.) he murdered several women and children during the Vietnam war of his own volition, and for years he beat my Father senseless almost daily. After that he abandoned his family for nearly 27 years only to show up again in 2003 and stayed when he realized that he had grandchildren.
I hate that this thought has even crossed my mind, but I can’t decide whether I should consider his death a tragedy, or a just punishment.
Forgive me if I sound disrespectful, but I’m just confused about how to feel about him.