A weird phone call

A cousin of mine died this weekend. She had cancer, and although she was my first cousin, she had turned 80 last year. What really struck me as odd was that her daughter-in-law called me this morning to let me know because she was unable to reach my parents, who are in Minneapolis at the hospital with my brother. I called my mom and dad tonight at their motel to give them the news. It just seemed really odd to me that I'd be in the position to make that phone call, to be the one to tell them about a relative's death (she was my dad's niece, although a few months older than my dad), rather than the other way around. I don't know if it's ironic, but it seemed weird.