• After the death of a parent, send a letter or call the banks and credit card companies to cancel cards and let them know that the cardholder has died.

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  • He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.

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  • Mr Deuchars said a grandchild could make a claim on their grandparent's estate on death if their own parent was already deceased, but the grandparent had no legal relationship in life.

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  • But a growing body of evidence suggests that her basic points are right: children of divorce are more likely to have problems at school, to drop out of education and to have difficult relationships than those who lose a parent through death or whose parents' marriage survives.

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  • At the parent's death, the insurance passes to the children free of estate and income tax.

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  • In many cases, the children have secret wishes that don't come out until after a parent's death.

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  • The departure of a parent from home through divorce, death or another cause of separation has far more impact on children than a parent's sexuality.

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  • How does a parent cope with the death of a child?

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  • Ms Dunmore's toing and froing between past and present is artfully done and greatly enriches the central story of the death of a child and a parent's grief.

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  • Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.

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  • Becker patients typically don't lose the ability to walk until their 20s and can live into their 50s or longer, although related heart problems can result in death earlier, according to Sharon Hesterlee, vice president of research at Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, a patient group.

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