My grandmother has been dead for three years and three months. Right after her death, when the funeral proceedings had been taken care of and we were over the initial shock and raw grief, my mother and I started contacting her utilities, credit card issuers and everyone else we could think of to notify them of her death. We sent out copies of her death certificate and everything.

Yet the mailbox for my grandparents’ house still gets clogged up with mail with her name on it. Last week there were three copies of the same furniture catalog, and policy offers from five different life insurance companies (hi guys, you’re a little late!).

Reminds me of when I worked for a telemarketing company and would call homes to renew magazine subscriptions… I hated the Reader’s Digest calls, because half the time I was asking some poor old man for his wife, who had just died X amount of months/weeks/days before. :(

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