Gina, you are too sweet to have to experience such an agonizing loss, especially with the unfortunate choices that your uncle had to make. I am so very sorry, and I am sending you big sister hugs.

If you could learn that life is too short, something that too many people never learn, then your aunt's death was not in vain. Remember her fondly and the fun times that you all shared together. The little that I know of your family, I'm sure that's how she would have wanted.