Parents, meanwhile, are finding themselves stuck caring for children, sometimes for much longer than they planned, with no exit plan in sight often damaging their own financial health and retirement savings.

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But sometimes memories take much longer to fade.

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"Previous experiments have indicated that when you select for a reduction in aggressiveness, you obviously get a tamer animal but you also get an animal that retains juvenile characteristics much longer during development, sometimes into adulthood, " said Dr Axelsson.

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"Sometimes death is diagnosed quickly and in other cases it can take much longer, usually when the person is in hospital and there is more equipment to try and restart the heart, " says nurse and resuscitation trainer, Alan Samuels.

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Sometimes I wish the show would give longer scenes to each character rather than hop around quite so much, though I know balancing out all these storylines is a Herculean task.

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