My parents died 20 years ago, she in April 1999 from complications of Parkinson’s; he, in September 1999 of prostate cancer. That they were only in their mid-70s made it sadder for us all. Provided by Bill St. JohnWilliam E. and Madeleine M. St. John at Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe Cookery School, County Cork, Ireland. I tell friends whose parent has just died that I have little help to salve their loss.