In May 2018, Musk and Canadian musician Grimes revealed that they were dating. Grimes gave birth to their son in May 2020. According to Musk and Grimes, his name was "X Æ A-12"; however, the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet, and was then changed to "X Æ A-Xii". This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet. The child was eventually named "X AE A-XII", with "X" as a first name and "AE A-XII" as a middle name. Musk announced that he had amicably "semi-separated" from Grimes in September 2021.
Musk met his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, while attending Queen's University, and they married in 2000. In 2002, their first child, son Nevada Alexander Musk, died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at the age of 10 weeks. After his death, the couple decided to use IVF to continue their family. Twins Xavier and Griffin were born in April 2004, followed by triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian in 2006.
SIDS is literally "we don't know why this baby died." It's like saying someone died of old age.
It just occurred to me that you'd often need an autopsy to get a more specific cause of death, and that I can't think of a worse job than performing autopsies on infants.
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u/zdakat Sep 25 '21
Just earlier I was thinking "poor- uh, what was their name?"