ABSTRACT
A parent's death will nearly always be the catalyst for a whole series of changes in your life, internally and externall~ It can often seem as if nothing is left untouched by death. And on top of the vast change caused by your parent's death alone, all these extra changes can sometimes feel unbearable. The gaps left in your daily life after a parent's death are hard to tolerate at first. You miss the voice in the hall, the face at the door, the Sundy morning phonecall, the kiss at bedtime. And then gradually you and your family begin to shift about a bit, rearrange yourselves to fill those gaps. Somebody else makes supper or washes it up; somebody else takes charge of emptying the bins or putting out the milk botdes. Somebody else now takes the car to be serviced or weeds the garden. Somebody else buys the newspaper on Sunday mornings.
