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The other thing is that if someone dies before Christmas the funeral may not be held until into the New Year so there is all the anguish of trying to arrange it and having to wait throughout the festive season when other people around you may be full of jollity.

And it's the presents bought with love, which will never be opened or played with.

The missing person at the table, if indeed the Christmas dinner goes ahead.

The advent calendar that never goes beyond that day.

The shock of a sudden death and autopsies being held up because everyone is on holiday, and trying to arrange funerals likewise.

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