For people whose parents are deceased

Both died several decades ago. They had divorced twenty years before that and I wasn't very close to my father after that. I left home at the age of eighteen and apart from one year immediately after uni I never lived in the same town as my parents again. Then my wife and I emigrated to Norway and we had only sporadic contact with our families from then on, visits at Christmas, some summer holidays.

So my life didn't really change much. My mother's death had a significant impact on my sister though, and still does thirty years later.